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Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty. Necessitous heirs and penurious parents. Arbuthnot.

Necessitousness; want. Sir M. Hale.

The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.

A process, now no longer used, invented by J. N. Niepce, a French chemist, in 1829. It depends upon the action of light in rendering a thin layer of bitumen, with which the plate is coated, insoluble.

Absence of necessity; the quality or state of being unnecessary.

A process of desilverizing argentiferous lead by repeated meltings and skimmings, which concentrate the silver in the molten bath, the final skimmings being nearly pure lad. The processwas invented in 1833 by Hugh Lee Pattinson, an English metallurgist.

A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. --Payn"ize, v. t.

The act of going before, or forward. Lunisolar precession. (Astron.) See under Lunisolar. -- Planetary precession, that part of the precession of the equinoxes which depends on the action of the planets alone. -- Precession of the equinoxes (Astron.), the slow backward motion of the equinoctial points along the eclip…

Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.

A predecessor. [Obs.] Fuller.

Going before; preceding. "Our predecessive students." Massinger.

llows or comes after, in any office or position. A prince who was as watchful as his predecessor had been over the interests of the state. Prescott.

ince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince. Dryden. So excellent a princess as the present queen. Swift.

A term applied to a lady's long, close-fitting dress made with waist and skirt in one.

Like a princess.

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance. "Long process of time." Milton. The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Tennyson.

A plate prepared by a mechanical process, esp. a photomechanical process.

g; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course. Bp. Pearson. That the procession of their life might be More equable, majestic, pure, and free. Trench.

Of or pertaining to a procession; consisting in a procession. The processional services became more frequent. Milman.

One who goes or marches in a procession. [R.]