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.