(1):

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

(2):

(n.) To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.

(3):

(adv.) Of necessity. See Needs.

(4):

(v. i.) To be wanted; to be necessary.

(5):

(n.) Situation of need; peril; danger.

(6):

(n.) That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.

(7):

(n.) Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.