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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

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Needier

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Neediest

Distressed by want of the means of living; very poor; 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 blushes of

needy

merit.

Dr. T. Dwight.

Necessary; requisite.

[Obs.]

Corn to make your

needy

bread.

Shakespeare

Adj.

Necessitous; indigent; very poor; distressed by want of the means of living.

To relieve the needy and comfort the afflicted, are duties that fall in our way every day.

Spare the blushes of needy merit.