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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Needy \Need"y\, a. [Compar. {Needer}; superl. {Neediest}.]
1. Distressed by want of the means of living; very por;
indigent; necessitous.
Thou shalt open thy hand wide unto thy brother, to
thy poor, and to thy needy in thy land. --Deut. xv
11.
Spare the bluches of needly merit. --Dr. T.
Dwight.
2. Necessary; requiste. [Obs.]
Corn to make your needy bread. --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
needy
adj : poor enough to need help from others [syn: {destitute}, {impoverished},
{indigent}, {necessitous}, {poverty-stricken}]
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