English

Alternative forms

• need'st (obsolete)
• needest

Verb

needst

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of need
   • 1594, Christopher Marlowe, The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage:

     If that be all, then cheare thy drooping lookes, For I will furnish thee with such supplies: Let some of those thy followers goe with me, And they shall haue what thing so ere thou needst.

   • 1897, John Bennett, Master Skylark:

     "Thou needst na run," he called; "I've not the time to catch thee now.

   • 1900, George MacDonald, Paul Faber, Surgeon:

     Thou needst not love me any more; I care not for thy love.

   • 1904, Mary Johnston, Sir Mortimer:

     Through the faintness and the leaden horror that weighed her down she heard Ferne's voice, at first yet monotonous and low, at the last an irrepressible cry of passion: "Now there is no longer troth between us, and all thy days, by summer and by winter, thou mayst listen unabashed to tales of such as I. If I am named to thee, thou needst not blush, for now I have seared away that eve above the river, that morn at Penshurst.

Anagrams

• nested, teends, tensed