Definition of Need. Meaning of Need. Synonyms of Need
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Definition of Need
Need Need Need, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Needed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Needing.] [See Need, n. Cf. AS. n?dan to force, Goth.
nau?jan.]
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.
Note: 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. ).
Need Need Need, v. i.
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.
Need Need Need, adv.
Of necessity. See Needs. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Ne Ne Ne, conj. [See Ne, adv.]
Nor. [Obs.] --Shak.
No niggard ne no fool. --Chaucer.
Ne . . . ne, neither . . . nor. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Ne Ne Ne, adv. [AS. ne. See No.]
Not; never. [Obs.]
He never yet no villany ne said. --Chaucer.
Note: Ne was formerly used as the universal adverb of
negation, and survives in certain compounds, as never
(= ne ever) and none (= ne one). Other combinations,
now obsolete, will be found in the Vocabulary, as nad,
nam, nil. See Negative, 2.
