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Brit, skint.
2. unavoidable, inescapable; compulsory. See - necessary (def. 2).
3. urgent, exigent, pressing. See - necessary (def 1). necessity, n. 1. requirement, requisite, prerequisite, necessary; makings, what it takes; necessaries, necessities, essentials, bare essentials or necessities; Latin, sine qua non.
2. indispensability, essentiality, needfulness, Archaic. necessitude; compulsoriness, obligatoriness, mandatoriness.
3. need, want, desire, demand, call for; essential, indispensable, must, must-have, must item, imperative, exigency, urgency, urgent need, dire necessity, matter of life and death or matter of life or death; matter of necessity, case of need.
4. inevitability, inescapability, ineluctability, unavoidably, inevasibility; certainty, certitude, Inf. sure thing, Inf. sure bet; choicelessness, no choice, no alternative, Hobson's choice.
5. compulsion, obligation, obligement, necessitation, constraint; pressure, high pressure, high-pressure tactics or methods, duress; force, coercion, Inf. the strong arm, Inf. strong-arm tactics.
6. indigence, penury, impecuniousness, impoverishment, neediness, necessitousness: poverty, destitution, privation, beggary, pauperism, pennilessness, hand-to-mouth existence; straits, narrow straits, straitened or narrow or reduced or embarrassed circumstances; poor house, poor farm, wolf at the door, bare cupboard.
7. of necessity necessarily, perforce, by force of circumstances; willy-nilly, like it or not; consequently, as a result. See - necessarily (defs. 1, 2).

neck, n. 1. nape, scruff, Anat. cervix.
2. isthmus, tongue, cape, peninsula.
3. strait, narrows, arm, channel, canal, creek, U.S. Dial. kill.
4. neck and neck even, equal, level; abreast, side by side, nose to nose, alongside, parallel, running level, on a par.
-v. 5. Informal, kiss, SI. make out, buss, SI. smooch, smack, Inf. lollygag, osculate; fondle, pet, caress, stroke, pat; nuzzle, nestle, carry on, snuggle; bill and coo, make love, slap and tickle,

neckband, n. collar, ruff, dog-collar, collarband, rabato; neckerchief, kerchief, clerical collar, stole, tippet; bandanna, scarf, muffler, boa; chemisette, tucker, guimpe, fichu.

necklace, n. necklet, chain, string, albert, torque, riviere, Archaic, carcanet; choker, love beads, beads, chaplet, wampum; locket, pendant, lavaliere, amulet, medallion, gorget.

necktie, n. tie, cravat, bow tie, stock, four-in-hand, old school tie; ascot, neckerchief, jabot, neckpiece, Obs. neckcloth.

necrology, n. 1. obituary, obit, death notice.
2. death register, death record, death roll, casualty list; martyrology.

necromancer, n. magician, black magician, wizard, warlock, witch; magus, sorcerer, sorceress, spiritualist, exorcist, Archaic, mage; theurgist, thaumaturgist, miracle-worker, hexer, voodooist, hoodooist, root doctor; incantator, enchanter, enchantress, charmer, occultist; diviner, prophet, seer, soothsayer, astrologer, dowser.

necromancy, n. magic, black magic, witchery, witchcraft, wizardry; voodoo, hoodoo, voodooism, hoodooism, obi, obiism, conjure, root work; sorcery, gramarye; shamanism, demonology, diabolism, deviltry, mysticism, spiritualism; conjuration, soothsaying, horoscopy, astrology; exorcism, exsufflation; divination, black art, thaumaturgy, theurgy,

necromantic, adj. magical, incantatory, alchemistic, runic, voodooistic, hoodooistic, shamanistic, thauma-turgic, theurgic; occult, cabalistic, mystic, spiritualistic, magian; sorcerous, goetic, sortilegious, Circean, Chaldean.