nullo

American  

[nuhl-oh] / ˈnʌl oʊ /

noun

• nullos
  plural

1. (in certain card games) a bid to take no tricks.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• nullos
  plural

Etymology

Origin of nullo

1590–1600; < Italian: none < Latin nūllus null

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

nullo nullos

There is also, as we have seen, a method of Deductive Logic resting on the Principles of Consistency and the Dictum de omni et nullo.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

And this flexibility and elasticity had never been taught her by rule, nor even been acquired by observation, but, nullo cultu, had naturally developed itself with her years.

From Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy

A somewhat similar quality is intended to be expressed in the epithet applied to him by Ovid:— “Ennius arte carens, animosique Attius oris, Casurum nullo tempore nomen habent.”

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop

The Attorney-General, on the part of the crown, put in the usual plea, or joinder in error—"In nullo est erratum;" Anglicè, that "there is no error in the record."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various

I find the bloody gentleman is uno insipido del nullo senso.

From Joseph Andrews Vol 1 by Henry Fielding

The thin young lady, who had obliged with the vocal selections, asked the captain if he played "nullos."

From Cap'n Dan's Daughter by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

"Tali tua membra sepulchro, Talibus exuram Stygio cum carmine Sylvis, Ut nullos cantata Magos exaudiat umbra," said an enchantress, in Lucan, to a spirit she evoked.

From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Henry Christmas