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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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AUGHT, n.² In the phrase of aught = of importance, consequeuce. Ayr. 1821 Galt Annals of the Par. xx.:
The rest of the year was merely a quiet succession of small incidents, none of which are worthy of notation, though they were all severally, no doubt, of aught somewhere.