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NEED, n. [to be in want. The primary sense is to press.]

1. Want; occasion for something; necessity; a state that requires supply or relief. It sometimes expresses urgent want; pressing exigency.

What further need have we of witnesses? Matthew 26.

2. Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence.

I know how to abound and to suffer need. Philippians 4.

NEED, v.t. [ to compel] To want; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.

They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. Matthew 9.

NEED,v.i. To be wanted; to be necessary.

When we have done it, we have done all that is in our power, and all that needs. [Not used.]

Need is often used as an auxiliary, or at least without the personal termination.

And the lender need not fear he shall be injured.


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NEED, n. [to be in want. The primary sense is to press.]

1. Want; occasion for something; necessity; a state that requires supply or relief. It sometimes expresses urgent want; pressing exigency.

What further need have we of witnesses? Matthew 26.

2. Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence.

I know how to abound and to suffer need. Philippians 4.

NEED, v.t. [ to compel] To want; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.

They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. Matthew 9.

NEED,v.i. To be wanted; to be necessary.

When we have done it, we have done all that is in our power, and all that needs. [Not used.]

Need is often used as an auxiliary, or at least without the personal termination.

And the lender need not fear he shall be injured.

NEED, n. [Sax. nead, neod, nyd; D. nood; G. noth; Sw. nod; Dan. nöd; Eth. ነድየ nadei, to be in want. The primary sense is to press. Class Nd, No. 7, 24.]

  1. Want; occasion for something; necessity; a state that requires supply or relief. It sometimes expresses urgent want; pressing exigency. What further need have we of witnesses? Matth. xxvi. For ye have need of patience. Heb. x.
  2. Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence. I know how to abound and to suffer need. Phil. iv.

NEED, v.i.

To be wanted; to be necessary. When we have done it, we have done all that is in our power, and all that needs. [Not used.] Locke. Need is often used as an auxiliary, or at least without the personal termination. And the lender need not fear he shall be injured. Anacharsis, Trans.


NEED, v.t. [Sax. geneadan, genedan, to compel; Dan. nöder.]

To want; to lack; to require, as supply or relief. They that be whole, need not a physician, but they that are sick. Matth. ix.


Need
  1. A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

    And the city had no need of the sun. Rev. xxi. 23.

    I have no need to beg. Shak.

    Be governed by your needs, not by your fancy. Jer. Taylor.

  2. To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.

    Other creatures all day long
    Rove idle, unemployed, and less need rest.     Milton.

    * With another verb, need is used like an auxiliary, generally in a negative sentence expressing requirement or obligation, and in this use it undergoes no change of termination in the third person singular of the present tense. "And the lender need not fear he shall be injured." Anacharsis (Trans. ).

  3. To be wanted; to be necessary.

    Chaucer.

    When we have done it, we have done all that is in our power, and all that needs. Locke.

  4. Of necessity. See Needs.

    [Obs.] Chaucer.
  5. Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

    Chaucer.

    Famine is in thy cheeks;
    Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes.     Shak.

  6. That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.

    [Obs.] Chaucer.
  7. Situation of need; peril; danger.

    [Obs.] Chaucer.

    Syn. -- Exigency; emergency; strait; extremity; necessity; distress; destitution; poverty; indigence; want; penury. -- Need, Necessity. Necessity is stronger than need; it places us under positive compulsion. We are frequently under the necessity of going without that of which we stand very greatly in need. It is also with the corresponding adjectives; necessitous circumstances imply the direct pressure of suffering; needy circumstances, the want of aid or relief.

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Need

NEED, noun [to be in want. The primary sense is to press.]

1. Want; occasion for something; necessity; a state that requires supply or relief. It sometimes expresses urgent want; pressing exigency.

What further need have we of witnesses? Matthew 26:65.

2. Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence.

I know how to abound and to suffer need Philippians 4:12.

NEED, verb transitive [ to compel] To want; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.

They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. Matthew 9:12.

NEED, verb intransitive To be wanted; to be necessary.

When we have done it, we have done all that is in our power, and all that needs. [Not used.]

NEED is often used as an auxiliary, or at least without the personal termination.

And the lender need not fear he shall be injured.

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