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not

not \(')na:t\ av [ME, alter of nought, fr. nought, pron. - more at NAUGHT] 
   1: - used as a function word to make negative a group of words or a word  
   2: - used as a function word to stand for the negative of a preceding gr 
   oup of words {is sometimes hard to see and sometimes ~}