All things needful for defense abound.
Dryden.
-- Need"ful*ly, adv. -- Need"ful*ness, n.
Need"i*ly (?), adv. [From Needy.] In a needy condition or manner;
necessarily. Chaucer.
Need"i*ness, n. The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty;
indigence.
Nee"dle (?), n. [OE. nedle, AS. n&?;dl; akin to D. neald, OS. ndla, G.
nadel, OHG. ndal, ndala, Icel. nl, Sw. nål, Dan. naal, and also to G.
nähen to sew, OHG. njan, L. nere to spin, Gr. &?;, and perh. to E.
snare: cf. Gael. & Ir. snathad needle, Gael. snath thread, G. schnur
string, cord.] 1. A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one
end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing. Chaucer.
In some needles(as for sewing machines) the eye is at the pointed end,
but in ordinary needles it is at the blunt end.