Nec″es‐sa‐ry, n.; pl.Necessaries (�). 1. A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; — used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.
2. A privy; a water-closet.
3. pl.(Law) Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.