\Needs\, adv. [Orig. gen. of need, used as an adverb. Cf.
{-wards}.]
Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must,
and equivalent to of need.
      A man must needs love mauger his head.   --Chaucer.
      And he must needs go through Samaria.    --John iv. 4.
      He would needs know the cause of his reulse. --Sir J.
                                               Davies.