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ch is required; an imperative or authoritative command; an essential condition; something needed or necessary; a need. One of those who believe that they can fill up every requirement contained in the rule of righteousness. J. M. Mason. God gave her the child, and gave her too an instinctive knowledge of its nature and…

A formal application by one officer to another for things needed in the public service; as, a requisition for clothing, troops, or money.

To lay or place at rest; to quiet. Your piety has paid All needful rites, to rest my wandering shade. Dryden.

A king. To play rex, to play the king; to domineer. [Obs.]

Minute transparent, often needlle-shaped, crystals found in the tissues of plants. [Written also raphides.]

To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of. [Obs.] Deliver the poor and needy; rid them out of the hand of the wicked. Ps. lxxxii. 4.

To manage insolently at will; to domineer over. The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers. Swift.

body of men engaged in the violation of law or in an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers, or the like. The ringleaders were apprehended, tried, fined, and imprisoned. Macaulay.

The act or practice of rioting; riot. "Electioneering riotry." Walpole.

A cloak reaching about to, or just below, the knees, worn in the 18th century. [Written also roquelo.]

The patella, or kneepan.

Of or pertaining to the rotula, or kneepan.

A wrinkle or crease in a piece of cloth, or in needlework.

To sew, as a seam, by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.

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

A variety of appliqué work for quilts, table covers, etc. Caulfeild & S. (Dict. of Needlework).

lenders.] On the inside of the hock, or a little below it, as well as at the bend of the knee, there is occasionally a scurfy eruption called "mallenders" in the fore leg, and "sallenders" in the hind leg. Youatt.

A pattern; a specimen; especially, a collection of needlework patterns, as letters, borders, etc., to be used as samples, or to display the skill of the worker. Susie dear, bring your sampler and Mrs. Schumann will show you how to make that W you bothered over. E. E. Hale.

alled the tailor's muscle, which arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee. So named because its contraction was supposed to produce the position of the legs assumed by the tailor in sitting.

The bark of a West African leguminous tree (Erythrophlæum Guineense, used by the natives as an ordeal poison, and also medicinally; -- called also mancona bark.