Word Meanings - NEEDMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Something needed or wanted. pl.

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• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• NEEDFUL
  1. Full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing. Chaucer. The needful time of trouble. Bk. of Com. Prayer. 2. Necessary for supply or relief; requisite. All things needful for defense abound. Dryden. -- Need"ful*ly, adv. -- Need"ful*ness, n.
• NEEDLESS
  1. Having no need. Weeping into the needless stream. Shak. 2. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses. 3. Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." Shak. -- Need"less*ly,
• NEEDLESTONE
  Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite.
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• NEEDILY
  In a needy condition or manner; necessarily. Chaucer.
• NEEDMENT
  Something needed or wanted. pl.
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• NEEDLEWOMAN
  A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
• NEED
  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
• NEEDLY
  Like a needle or needles; as, a needly horn; a needly beard. R. D. Blackmore.
• NEEDINESS
  The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.
• NEEDLE
  One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus. 5. Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc. Dipping needle. See under Dipping. -- Needle bar, the reciprocating
• WANTAGE
  That which is wanting; deficiency.
• NEEDER
  One who needs anything. Shak.
• NEEDLER
  One who makes or uses needles; also, a dealer in needles. Piers Plowman.
• NEEDLEBOOK
  A book-shaped needlecase, having leaves of cloth into which the needles are stuck.
• WANTONIZE
  To behave wantonly; to frolic; to wanton. Lamb.
• WANTY
  A surcingle, or strap of leather, used for binding a load upon
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
• TOUCH-NEEDLE
  A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
• SEAWAN; SEAWANT
  The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money. Note: Seawan was of two kinds; wampum, white, and suckanhock, black or purple, -- the former having half the value of the latter. Many
• DEVIL'S DARNING-NEEDLE
  A dragon fly. See Darning needle, under Darn, v. t.