needment

English

Etymology

need +‎ -ment

Noun

needment (plural needments)

1. (archaic) Something needed or wanted.
2. (archaic, in the plural) outfit; necessary luggage
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     His wearie limbes upon: and eke behind,
     His scrip did hang, in which his needments he did bind

   • 1847, William Wordsworth, Autobiographical Memoranda:

     We went staff in hand, without knapsacks, and carrying each his needments tied up in a pocket handkerchief

   • 1895, George Gissing, Nobodies at Home: Humble Felicity:

     Rarely, indeed, did it occur to this man of great resource to enter a shop like anyone else and pay down at the counter what was demanded. His domestic supplies of food and liquor, his clothing, his casual needments, were all procured through irregular channels, by the exercise of wonder-craft, experience, and audacity.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “needment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)