| n. | 1. | A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want. |
| 2. | Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. | |
| 3. | That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; ( | |
| 4. | Situation of need; peril; danger. | |
| v. t. | 1. | To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief. |
| v. i. | 1. | To be wanted; to be necessary. |
| adv. | 1. | Of necessity. See Needs. |
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