Need /(nēd)/

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

   And the city had no need of the sun.

   I have no need to beg.

   Be governed by your needs, not by your fancy.

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

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

3. That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business. [Obs.]
4. Situation of need; peril; danger. [Obs.]

imp. & p. p. Needed; p. pr. & vb. n. Needing

1. 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.

1. To be wanted; to be necessary.

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

1. Of necessity. See Needs. [Obs.]