a. & pron. [ OE. none, non, nan, no, na, AS. nān, fr. ne not + ān one. √193. See No, a. & adv., One, and cf. Non-, Null, a. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 1. No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also partitively, or as a plural, not any. [ 1913 Webster ] There is none that doeth good; no, not one. Ps. xiv. 3. [ 1913 Webster ] Six days ye shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none. Ex. xvi. 26. [ 1913 Webster ] Terms of peace yet none Vouchsafed or sought. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] None of their productions are extant. Blair. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. No; not any; -- used adjectively before a vowel, in old style; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life. [ 1913 Webster ] None of, not at all; not; nothing of; -- used emphatically. “They knew that I was none of the register that entered their admissions in the universities.” Fuller. -- None-so-pretty (Bot.), the Saxifraga umbrosa. See London pride (a), under London. [ 1913 Webster ]
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