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[Sp.] The chigoe, chigre, or jigger. *ni-hil, s. [Lat.=nothing.] Law: 1. Sing .: A return by the sheriff of nulla bona , or no effects, to a writ of distraint. 2. Pl .: Debts to the revenue which a sheriff said were worth nothing, owing to the insufficient resources of those liable for them. *nihil album, s. Chem.: A name formerly given to the flowers or white oxide of zinc. nihil capi at per breve, phr. (Lat. that he take nothing by his writ.] Law : The judgment given against the plaintiff in an action, either in bar thereof or in abatement of the writ. nihil (or nil) debet, phr. (Lat.=he owes nothing.] Law: A plea denying a debt. nihil (or nil) dicit, phr . [Lat.=he says nothing.] Law : A judgment by nihil dicit is when the defendant makes no answer. nihil habu it in tenement is, phr. (Lat.=he had nothing in the tenement or holding.] Law: A plea to be made in an action of debt only, brought by a le or against a le ee for years, or at will without deed. *ni-hil-hood, s. [Lat. nihil ; suff.- hood .] Nullity. ni'-hil-Işm, Ni-hil-ism, s. [Lat. nihil (from ne=not, and hilum a little thing, a straw, a trifle) nothing; Eng. suff. -ism .] I. Ord. Lang. (of the form Nihilism): Nothingne ; the state or condition of being nothing, nihil. ity. II. Technically : 1. Hist . & Polit .: A term used in Western Europe to designate the Ru ian Socialist movement, which began about 1870, and may be divided into two distinct periods: (1) " The going among the peasants." A number of young men and young women of the upper cla es voluntarily went to work in the fields and the factories so as personally to carry on a Socialist propaganda and distribute Socialist liter a ture. Their organs were the Yperiod ( Forward!) of London and the Workman of Geneva. This lasted about six years, during which time there were twenty-three political trials of 417 persons, half of whom were condemned to exile in Siberia or to hard labor in the mines. (2) In 1878 the strug gle with the government commenced. At a congre held at Lipezk, shortly after Solovieff's attempt on the life of Alexander II., the acquisition of political freedom was declared to be the first nece ity. It was hoped to gain this by the formation of a legislative body, elected by the people, with guarantees for electoral independence, and liberty to agitate for reforms. This was demanded from Alexander III. shortly after the a a ination of his predece or as the price of ces sation from violence. The Nihilist programme is an agrarian socialism based on communal property. The discoveries of the police show that Nihilism is widely spread in Ru ia, not only among the work ing, but among the well-to-do, cla es, and even in the army, especially in St. Petersburg, and in many of the principal cities and towns. 2. Metaph .: The doctrine that refuses a substantial reality to the phenomenal existence of which man is conscious. nim Ni-hil-Ist, s. [Lat. nihil =nothing; Eng. suff. -ist.] 1. Church Hist . ( pl .): A school of theologians who taught that God did not become anything through His Incarnation which He was not before. This opinion is traceable in the writings of Peter Lombard and Abelard, and even to the early school of Antioch, which maintained that God clothed Himself with humanity as with a garment. It was condemned at the Council of Later an in 1179. 2. Hist . & Polit . ( pl .): A name given in western Europe to the adherents of the Ru ian Socialist movement. In this sense the name is unknown in Ru ia. It was first applied by Ivan Tourgeneff to the hero of his novel Fathers and Sons , who was intended to be the personification of a movement in Ru ia, about 1860, for the emancipation of women, the independence of children, and the spread of natural religion. stantial reality. 3. Metaph.: One who holds that the phenomenal existence of which man is conscious has no subni-hil-Ist-Ic, a. [Eng. nihilist ; -ic.] Of or per taining to Nihilism; characterized by Nihilism.