Weeping into the needless stream.
Shak.
2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requisite; as, needless labor; needless
expenses.
3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; causeless. "Needless
jealousy." Shak.
-- Need"less*ly, adv. -- Need"less*ness, n.
Nee"dle*stone` (?), n. (Min.) Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite.
Nee"dle*wom`an (?), n.; pl. Needlewomen (&?;). A woman who does
needlework; a seamstress.
Nee"dle*work` (?), n. 1. Work executed with a needle; sewed work;
sewing; embroidery; also, the business of a seamstress.
2. The combination of timber and plaster making the outside framework
of some houses.
Nee"dly (?), a. Like a needle or needles; as, a needly horn; a needly
beard. R. D. Blackmore.
Need"ly (?), adv. [AS. ndlice. See Need.] Necessarily; of necessity.
[Obs.] hak.
Need"ment (?), n. Something needed or wanted. pl. Outfit; necessary
luggage. [Archaic] Spenser.
Carrying each his needments.
Wordsworth.
Needs (?), adv. [Orig. gen. of need, used as an adverb. Cf. -wards.] Of
necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and
equivalent to of need.
A man must needs love mauger his head.
Chaucer.
And he must needs go through Samaria.
John iv. 4.
He would needs know the cause of his reulse.
Sir J. Davies.
Needs"cost` (?), adv. Of necessity. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Needs"ly, adv. Of necessity. [Obs.] Drayton.
Need"y (?), a. [Compar. Needier (?); superl. Neediest.] 1. Distressed
by want of the means of living; very poor; indigent; necessitous.
Thou shalt open thy hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to
thy needy in thy land.
Deut. xv. 11.
Spare the blushes of needly merit.
Dr. T. Dwight.