Nihil

||Ni"hil (?), n. [L.] Nothing.

||Nihil album [L., white nothing] (Chem.), oxide of zinc. See under Zinc. -- ||Nihil debet [L., he owes nothing] (Law), the general issue in certain actions of debt. -- ||Nihil dicit [L., he says nothing] (Law), a declinature by the defendant to plead or answer. Tomlins.