a state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.-want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.-that which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.-situation of need; peril; danger.-to be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.-to be wanted; to be necessary.-of necessity. see needs.