need
/nid/ noun A1- A requirement for something; something needed. · There's no need to speculate; we can easily find out for sure.· She grew irritated with his constant need for attention.
- A desire or craving for the satisfaction of a requirement perceived as essential or primal.
- Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
Plural needs
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The magistrate laid emphasis on these words, as if he wished to apply them to the owner himself, while his eyes seemed to plunge into the heart of one who, interceding for another, had himself need of indulgence.
A NIGHTINGALE, sitting aloft upon an oak and singing according to his wont, was seen by a Hawk who, being in need of food, swooped down and seized him.
“If ever you need us again,” she said, “come out into the field and call, and we shall hear you and come to your assistance.
“I have no heart, you know, so I am careful to help all those who may need a friend, even if it happens to be only a mouse.”
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