Næft

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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næft

f. Poverty, indigence:-- Næfte inopie, Scint. 159, 13. Tó genim þearfan, and for næfte his ne forlǽt hyne ídelne adsume pauperem et propter inopiam eius ne dimittas illum vacuum, 157, 3:7. Of næfte, 198, 8. næft