nihil

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun nihil has 1 sense

nihil(n = noun.quantity) - (Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ); "nihil habet"

CIDE DICTIONARY

nihil, n. [L.].

Nothing. [1913 Webster]

∥Nihil album [L., white nothing] (Chem.), oxide of zinc. See under Zinc. -- ∥Nihil debet [L., he owes nothing] (Law), the general issue in certain actions of debt. -- ∥Nihil dicit [L., he says nothing] (Law), a declinature by the defendant to plead or answer. Tomlins.