The Collaborative International Dictionary
Need \Need\ (n[=e]d), n. [OE. need, neod, nede, AS. ne['a]d, n[=y]d; akin to D. nood, G. not, noth, Icel. nau[eth]r, Sw. & Dan. n["o]d, Goth. nau[thorn]s.]
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A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
And the city had no need of the sun.
--Rev. xxi. 23.I have no need to beg.
--Shak.Be governed by your needs, not by your fancy.
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Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
--Chaucer.Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes.
--Shak. That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business. [Obs.]
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Situation of need; peril; danger. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.Syn: Exigency; emergency; strait; extremity; necessity; distress; destitution; poverty; indigence; want; penury.
Usage: Need, Necessity. Necessity is stronger than need; it places us under positive compulsion. We are frequently under the necessity of going without that of which we stand very greatly in need. It is also with the corresponding adjectives; necessitous circumstances imply the direct pressure of suffering; needy circumstances, the want of aid or relief.
Need \Need\, v. i.
To be wanted; to be necessary.
--Chaucer.
When we have done it, we have done all that is in our
power, and all that needs.
--Locke.
Need \Need\, adv.
Of necessity. See Needs. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Need \Need\ (n[=e]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Needed; p. pr. & vb. n. Needing.] [See Need, n. Cf. AS. n[=y]dan to force, Goth. nau[thorn]jan.] To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
Other creatures all day long
Rove idle, unemployed, and less need rest.
--Milton.
Note: With another verb, need is used like an auxiliary,
generally in a negative sentence expressing requirement
or obligation, and in this use it undergoes no change
of termination in the third person singular of the
present tense. ``And the lender need not fear he shall
be injured.''
--Anacharsis (Trans. ).
Bolis \Bo"lis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? missile, arrow, fr. ? to throw.] A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (label en countable and uncountable) A requirement for something. Etymology 2
vb. 1 (label en obsolete transitive) To be necessary (to someone). 2 (label en transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.
n. A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; especially one which explodes.
Usage examples of "bolis".
Paris had stepped away from Lekket and Bolis, and had his phaser raised as well.
His fingers on a pendant around his neck, Bolis pressed a button and spoke.
The Edesian commodore's alter-ego, Bolis, spoke from across the bridge.
Janeway looked back to Tuvok, only to find Bolis hovering over the Vulcan's tactical console.
Janeway twisted toward tactical and hit Bolis with a glare that could ignite driftwood.
Lekket and Bolis shared a glance, the commodore shaking his head continuously.
She glanced at Bolis a moment, who was poring over one of the back consoles, then looked to her officer.
She pulled herself up, noticed Lekket was having to do the same, and turned to see Tuvok helping Bolis to his feet.
He pointed out a graph, Janeway and Bolis both watching over his shoulder.
As Bolis rose behind him, Tuvok checked one readout, then another, and a last screen just to be sure.
Janeway hesitated on the ladder as she asked her question, and Bolis's tone was pleading.
The only worry for her was what Bolis wanted in return for his generosity.
Janeway stepped onto the Ops deck, having left Bolis's disrupter back on the station.
Lekket turned, looked at Bolis, then at Janeway, as he registered her presence and, perhaps, her new posture more hardened than before.
She wanted to glance up at Bolis as well, to get some sort of visual reading on his opinion of Lekket's submission, but she resisted.