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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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. [bd]And the lender need not fear he shall be injured.[b8] --Anacharsis (Trans. ). |