Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Needy

Needy , adjective

1.
Distressed by want of the means of living; very poor; indigent; necessitous.
Thou shalt open thy hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy in thy land. — Deut. xv. 11
Spare the blushes of needy merit. — Dr. T. Dwight
2.
Necessary; requisite. [Obsolete]
Corn to make your needy bread. — Shakespeare