need

NEED, noun [to be in want. The primary sense is to press.] 1. Want; occasion for something; necessity; a state that requires supply or relief. It sometimes expresses urgent want; pressing exigency. What further need have we of witnesses? Matthew 26:65. 2. Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence. I know how to abound and to suffer need Philippians 4:12. NEED, verb transitive [ to compel] To want; to lack; to require, as supply or relief. They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. Matthew 9:12. NEED, verb intransitive To be wanted; to be necessary. When we have done it, we have done all that is in our power, and all that needs. [Not used.] NEED is often used as an auxiliary, or at least without the personal termination. And the lender need not fear he shall be injured.