The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Nothing \Noth"ing\, adv.
   In no degree; not at all; in no wise.
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         Adam, with such counsel nothing swayed.  --Milton.
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         The influence of reason in producing our passions is
         nothing near so extensive as is commonly believed.
                                                  --Burke.
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   Nothing off (Naut.), an order to the steersman to keep the
      vessel close to the wind.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
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            Yet had his aspect nothing of severe. --Dryden.
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   2. Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility;
      nothingness. --Shak.
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   3. A thing of no account, value, or note; something
      irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative
      unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.
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            Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought.
                                                  --Is. xli. 24.
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            'T is nothing, says the fool; but, says the friend,
            This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   4. (Arith.) A cipher; naught.
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   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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

nothing
    adv 1: in no respect; to no degree; "he looks nothing like his
           father"
    n 1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had
         ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had
         done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for
         naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing,
         nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher,
         goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]