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ˈnullo
[a. It. nullo: see null a.]
1. Now Typog. A nought, a cipher.
1598Florio, Cero, Zero, a sipher of naught, a nullo. a1640Jackson Creed x. Notes, Wks. IX. 271 To reckon it [sc. pleasure] not only as a nullo or cypher,..but as a mere vacuum or nothing. 1680W. de Britaine Hum. Prud. vi. (1686) 29, I am not much concerned if the Plebeian Heads take me for the Image of a Fly, a Nullo, a Cypher. 1824J. Johnson Typogr. II. iv. 71 The nullo..may be used as a degree in geometrical works.
2. A type of bridge in which the object is to lose rather than gain tricks, or one in which tricks gained count against a player. Also attrib.
1914London Opinion 7 Feb. 231/1 The new ‘nullo’ call at auction bridge is catching on... The Editor of the Strand Magazine intends publishing an article about ‘nullos’ in the March number. 1929M. C. Work Compl. Contract Bridge 241 Nullos, an unauthorized, and now obsolete, form of the game in which points were scored for losing instead of winning tricks. 1945A. A. Ostrow Compl. Card Player 620 Null (Nullo): this is a declaration in which the bidder contracts not to win a single trick. 1972H. Phillips Pop. Bk. Card Games 373 Nullos is a form of Bridge for two which I have long recommended. Ibid. 375 Nullos with Contract scoring is an improvement on the original game, where the scoring and conditions are based on Auction. |