Need

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To be wanted; to be necessary.

II. Need ·noun Situation of need; peril; danger.

III. Need ·adv Of necessity. ·see Needs.

IV. Need ·noun Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

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

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

VII. Need ·noun To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to Lack; to require, as supply or relief.