Defn: A pet name for a donkey.
NEE Nee, p. p., fem. Etym: [F., fr. L. nata, fem. of natus, p.p. of nasci to be born. See Nation.]
Defn: Born; — a term sometimes used in introducing the name of the family to which a married woman belongs by birth; as, Madame de Staël, née Necker.
NEED
Need, n. Etym: [OE. need, neod, nede, AS. neád, nyd; akin to D. nood,
G. not, noth, Icel. nauedhr, Sw. & Dan. nöd, Goth. naups.]
1. 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. Jer. Taylor.
2. Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
Chaucer.
Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes.
Shak.
3. That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business. [Obs.] Chaucer.
4. Situation of need; peril; danger. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Syn. — Exigency; emergency; strait; extremity; necessity; distress; destitution; poverty; indigence; want; penury. — 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. t. [imp. & p. p. Needed; p. pr. & vb. n. Needing.] Etym:
[See Need, n. Cf. AS. n to force, Goth. nau.]