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. |