níed

f (-e/-a) 1. necessity, inevitableness; what is necessary; 2. necessity, need, urgent requirement, compulsion, duty; for, of \níede of necessity, unavoidably; 3. a necessary business, duty; ús is níed, þæt…it is our bound duty that…; errand, business; 3a. necessity from the facts or circumstances of the case; 4. need, what one wants; 5. necessity, need, difficulty, hardship, distress, trouble, pain; 6. violence, force, compulsion, exercised by or upon person; 7. the name of the rune for n; 8. a condition of affairs placing one in difficulty or distress; a time of difficulty; exigency, emergency; 9. a condition marked by the lack or want of some necessary thing, or requiring some extraneous aid or addition; 10. a matter requiring action to be taken, a piece of necessary business; 11. a particular point or respect in which some necessity or want is present or felt; 11a. a necessary article, necessary of life 12. \níed is it is necessary or needful (with dat. infin. or clause); a. w.d. person; \níed habban to be under a necessity to do something; (to have) need of, (to have) need, be in want; 13. see see néod