'Nothing but' definitions:
Definition of 'Nothing but'
From: GCIDE
- Nothing \Noth"ing\, n. [From no, a. + thing.]
- 1. Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something. [1913 Webster]
- Yet had his aspect nothing of severe. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle. [1913 Webster]
- Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought. --Is. xli. 24. [1913 Webster]
- 'T is nothing, says the fool; but, says the friend, This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Arith.) A cipher; naught. [1913 Webster]
- Nothing but, only; no more than. --Chaucer.
- To make nothing of. (a) To make no difficulty of; to consider as trifling or important. "We are industrious to preserve our bodies from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our souls to be slaves to our lusts." --Ray. (b) Not to understand; as, I could make nothing of what he said. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Nothing but'
- Nothing,
- Nothing off,
- do nothing,
- for nothing,
- nothings,
- out of nothing,
- Good for nothing,
- Neck or nothing,
- To dance on nothing,
- To go for nothing,
- To make nothing of,
- all-or-nothing,
- come to nothing,
- do-nothing,
- know nothing,
- make nothing of,
- mere nothing,
- nothing of the kind,
- nothing special,
- sweet nothings,
- think nothing of,
- Know-nothing,
- good-for-nothing,
- much ado about nothing,
- know-nothing party