† needs-forceadv.
Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
Perforce, of necessity.
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1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1848) ccvi. 406 I verily think that Christ hath said, ‘I must needs-force have Jean Campbell for Myself.’
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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adv.1637- to lump into orin with
- to lump large
- to lump something into or with
- to lump something into orin with
- to lump together
- to lump together in or into, occasionally under
- to lump together occasionally up
- to lush it
- to maiden it
- to mail it in
- to maintain one's ground
- to maintain one's own
- to maintain the field
- to make a
- to make a baby
- to make a bad job of
- to make a bad landfall
- to make a balk
- to make a balk of good ground
- to make a balls of
- to make a bauchle of
- to make a baulk
- to make a bed
- to make a beeline
- to make a better door than a window