Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Nil

Nil , transitive verb

[See Nill, transitive verb]

Will not. [Obsolete] — Chaucer

Nil , noun and adjective

[Latin, a contr. of nihil.]

Nothing; of no account; worthless; -- a term often used for canceling, in accounts or bookkeeping. — A. J. Ellis

Nil , noun

(computers) A special value for a variable used in certain computer languages to mean no assigned value, to be distinguished from the value zero.