nil

nil (http://definr.com/nil)

     n 1: nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort
          to serve a writ: "nihil habet") [syn: nihil]
     2: 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,
         nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, {goose
        egg}, naught, zero, zilch, zip]