needy (ned i)

[ And these our ships, you happily may think,.. Are stored with corn to make your needy bread. Shak., Pericles, i. 4. 95. 2. Nece itous; indigent; very poor. Tellen hem and techen hem on the trinite to bileue, And feden hem with gostly fode and nedy folke to fynden. Piers Plowman (B), xv. 564. But fewe regard their needy neighbours lacke. Gas coigne, Steele Glas (ed. Arber), p. 59. To relieve the needy and comfort the afflicted are duties that fall in our way every day. him not go out of the kingdom: ne, not; exeat, 3d pers. sing. pres. subj. of exire, go out, depart (see exit ); reg no, abl. of regnum, kingdom: see reign, n.] A writ i ued from chancery to forbid a defendant to leave the kingdom (or jurisdiction) without permi ion; a provisional remedy in chancery corresponding somewhat to arrest at common law (for the defendant could be attached, and compelled to give security). The same remedy is now preserved under the codes of procedure in equitable actions in which the departure of the defendant might prevent the judgment of the court from having effect, as when the object of the action is to compel him to account or to convey.