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Contrary to, or unauthorized by, law; illegal; as, a lawless claim. He needs no indirect nor lawless course. Shak.

In spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding. A man must needs love maugre his heed. Chaucer. This mauger all the world will I keep safe. Shak.

er; demeanor; carriage; bearing. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen. Pope.

ty had no need of the sun. Rev. xxi. 23. I have no need to beg. Shak. Be governed by your needs, not by your fancy. Jer. Taylor.

One who needs anything. Shak.

d condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention. "To nurse the saplings tall." Milton. By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion Locke.

manner or degree; for one purpose alone; simply; merely; barely. And to be loved himself, needs only to be known. Dryden.

king reprisals. Addison. Some positive, persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so. Pope. That face persists. It floats up; it turns over in my mind. Mrs. Browning.

ng; -- said of persons. Some positive, persisting fops we know, That, if once wrong, will needs be always. Pope.

rficial tale Is but a preface of her worthy praise. Shak. Heaven's high behest no preface needs. Milton.

Anticipation; esp., anticipation of needs or wishes; hence, precaution; forethought. [Obs.] Hammond. Shak.

nt ordained by divine direction. He that hath a numerous family, and many to provide for, needs a greater providence of God. Jer. Taylor.

An adverbial suffix; as in towards, needs, always, -- originally the genitive, possesive, ending. See -'s.

disposition to impute immorality or wrong. Shun their fault, who, scandalously nice, Will needs mistake an author into vice. Pope.

t differently determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes. My dismal scene I needs must act alone. Shak.

Sensation; sensibility. [R.] "Our temper changed . . . which must needs remove the sensible of pain." Milton.

t of six in throwing dice. In the new casting of a die, when ace is on the top, sise must needs be at the bottom. Fuller.

To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter. That mind must needs be irrecoverably depraved, which, . . . tasting but once of one just deed, spatters at it, and abhors the relish ever after. Milton.

To come under, as a support or stay; to happen. A future state must needs subvene to prevent the whole edifice from falling into ruin. Bp. Warburton.

inct and clear. Roscommon. The shortest and most succinct model that ever grasped all the needs and necessities of mankind. South.