Category:Needs

Needs, adv. Etym: [orig. gen. of need, used as an adverb. Cf. - Wards.]

Defn: of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, And equivalent to of need. A man must needs love mauger his head. Chaucer. And he must needs go through samaria. John iv. 4. He would needs know the cause of his reulse. Sir j. Davies.