Definition of Needy

Need´y
a.1.Distressed by want of the means of living; very poor; indigent; necessitous.
Spare the blushes of needy merit.
- Dr. T. Dwight.
2.Necessary; requisite.
Corn to make your needy bread.
- Shak.


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