[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

need \need\, v. i.
   to be wanted; to be necessary. --chaucer.
   1913 webster

         when we have done it, we have done all that is in our
         power, and all that needs.               --locke.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

need \need\, adv.
   of necessity. see needs. obs. --chaucer.
   1913 webster
see also:
needs 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

need \need\ n=ed, v. t. imp.  p. p. needed; p. pr.  vb.
   n. needing. see need, n. cf. as. n=ydan to force,
   goth. nauthornjan.
   to be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to
   require, as supply or relief.
   1913 webster

         other creatures all day long
         rove idle, unemployed, and less need rest. --milton.
   1913 webster

   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. "and the lender need not fear he shall
         be injured." --anacharsis trans. .
         1913 webster
see also:
needed needing need 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

need \need\ n=ed, n. oe. need, neod, nede, as. ne'ad,
   n=yd; akin to d. nood, g. not, noth, icel. nauethr, sw. 
   dan. n"od, goth. nauthorns.
   1. a state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion
      for something; necessity; urgent want.
      1913 webster

            and the city had no need of the sun.  --rev. xxi.
                                                  23.
      1913 webster

            i have no need to beg.                --shak.
      1913 webster

            be governed by your needs, not by your fancy. --jer.
                                                  taylor.
      1913 webster

   2. want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence;
      destitution. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            famine is in thy cheeks;
            need and oppression starveth in thine eyes. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. that which is needful; anything necessary to be done;
      pl. necessary things; business. obs. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   4. situation of need; peril; danger. obs. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   syn: exigency; emergency; strait; extremity; necessity;
        distress; destitution; poverty; indigence; want; penury.

   usage: 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. it is also
          with the corresponding adjectives; necessitous
          circumstances imply the direct pressure of suffering;
          needy circumstances, the want of aid or relief.
          1913 webster
see also:
need necessity 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

need
     n 1: a condition requiring relief; "she satisfied his need for
          affection"; "god has no need of men to accomplish his
          work"; "there is a demand for jobs" syn: demand
     2: anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient
        means to meet his simple needs"; "i tried to supply his
        wants" syn: want
     3: the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action
        toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that
        which gives purpose and direction to behavior; "we did not
        understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of
        motives" syn: motivation, motive
     4: a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence
        appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the
        homeless" syn: indigence, penury, beggary, pauperism,
         pauperization
     v 1: require as useful, just, or proper; "it takes nerve to do
          what she did"; "success usually requires hard work";
          "this job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "this
          position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "this
          dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "this
          intervention does not postulates a patient's consent"
          syn: necessitate, ask, postulate, require, take,
           involve, call for, demand ant: obviate
     2: have need of; "this piano wants the attention of a competent
        tuner" syn: want, require
     3: have or feel a need for; "always needing friends and money"
see also:
demand want motivation motive indigence penury 
beggary pauperism pauperization necessitate ask 
postulate require take involve call for 
obviate 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

169 moby thesaurus words for "need":
   absence, ardor, arrearage, ask, bare cupboard, bare necessities,
   bare subsistence, basic, be forced, be hurting for, be in for,
   be in want, be indicated, be necessary, be obliged, be pinched,
   be poor, beggarliness, beggary, break, call, call for,
   cannot do otherwise, cannot help but, charge, claim, clamor for,
   commitment, committal, concupiscence, constraint, covet, crave,
   cry for, cry out for, curiosity, dearth, defalcation, defect,
   defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, demand, demand for,
   deprivation, desideration, desideratum, desire, destitution,
   devoir, difficulty, discontinuity, distress, drive, drought, duty,
   eagerness, emergency, empty purse, essential, essentials, exact,
   exaction, exigency, extremity, famine, fancy, fantasy, fundamental,
   gap, go on welfare, grinding poverty, gripe,
   hand-to-mouth existence, hanker, have, have got to, have need to,
   have occasion for, have to, hiatus, homelessness, hope, horme,
   hunger, impecuniousness, imperfection, impoverishment,
   incompleteness, indigence, indispensable, insufficiency,
   intellectual curiosity, interval, lack, lacuna, libido, long,
   lust for learning, mendicancy, mind, miss, missing link,
   moneylessness, must, must item, necessaries, necessary,
   necessities, necessitousness, necessity, need for, need to,
   needfulness, neediness, needs must, occasion, omission, ought,
   outage, passion, paucity, pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch,
   pine, pleasure, pleasure principle, poorness, poverty, prerequire,
   prerequirement, prerequisite, privation, require, requirement,
   requisite, requisition, right, run short of, scarcity,
   sexual desire, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, should,
   sine qua non, starvation, starve, stress, take doing,
   the necessary, the needful, thirst, thirst for knowledge, trouble,
   ullage, urge, use, want, want doing, wantage, wanting, will,
   will and pleasure, wish, wish fulfillment, yearn

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