need

need is a Noun

Definition:

[1] A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want. And the city had no need of the sun. Rev. xxi. 23. I have no need to beg. Shak. Be governed by your needs, not by your fancy. Jer. Taylor.

[2] Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. Chaucer. Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes. Shak.

[3] That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business. [Obs.] Chaucer.

[4] Situation of need; peril; danger. [Obs.] Chaucer.