nec to stem (nektostem)

[ Just below the float on the nec to stem there is a small cluster of minute buds in which can be found nec to calices of all sizes [in Agalma ]. Stand . Nat . Hist ., I. 99. ticular use of Neddy, dim. of Ned, a familiar form of Ed, a common dim. abbreviation of Ed ward. Cf. equiv.cuddy1.] An a ; a donkey. nedet, n., v., and adr. A Middle English form of need. nedest, adv. A Middle English form of needs. nedlet, n. A Middle English form of needle. nee, v. i. An obsolete or dialectal form of neigh1. née (na), a. [F. ( cate the family to which she belongs: as, Madame de Staël, née Necker (that is, Madame de Staël, born Necker, or whose family name was Necker). need (ned), п. [ The knyghtes sat down and ete and dranke as the i that needle second and third persons singular): as, he or they need not go; need he do it?]=Syn. Want, etc. See lack i. II. in trans. To be wanted; be nece ary: used impersonally. It nedethe not to telle zou the names of the Cytees, ne of the Townes that ben in that Weye. Mandeville , Travels, p. 54. There needs no such apology. Shak., Rich. III., iii. 7. 104. In north of England I was born: (It needed him to lie.) Auld Maitland (Child's Ballads, VI. 224). Merit this, but seeke onely Vertue, not to extend your Limits; for what needs? Milton , Reformation in Eng., ii. needt (ned), adv. [ME. nede ; adverbial use, like needs , of need , n.] Needs; nece arily. The thinges that a man may not haue, he muste nede suffer. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 70. I woot weel, lord, thou riztful art, And that synne mote be ponyschid neede . Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 175. need-be (nēd'bē), n. Something compulsory, indispensable, or requisite; a nece ity. There is a need - be for removing. Carlyle, French Rev., III. iii. 4.