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

And the city had no need of the
sun.

Rev. xxi. 23.

I have no need to beg.

Shak.

Be governed by your needs, not by your
fancy.

Jer. Taylor.

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

Famine is in thy cheeks;

Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes.

Shak.

3. That which is needful; anything necessary
to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business. [Obs.]
Chaucer.

4. Situation of need; peril; danger.
[Obs.] Chaucer.

Syn. -- Exigency; emergency; strait; extremity; necessity;
distress; destitution; poverty; indigence; want; penury. --
Need, Necessity. Necessity is stronger than
need; it places us under positive compulsion. We are
frequently under the necessity of going without that of which
we stand very greatly in need.

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