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

Need (n.) Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

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

Need (n.) Situation of need; peril; danger.

Need (n.) To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.

Need (v. i.) To be wanted; to be necessary.

Need (adv.) Of necessity. See Needs.

Needs (adv.) Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and equivalent to of need.