husband

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy. [1913 Webster]

For my means, I'll husband them so well, They shall go far.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.To cultivate, as land; to till. [R.] [1913 Webster]

Land so trim and rarely husbanded.— Evelyn.[1913 Webster]

3.To furnish with a husband. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

1.The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

2.A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

The painful husband, plowing up his ground.— Hakewill.[1913 Webster]

He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestic and field accommodations.— Evelyn.[1913 Webster]

3.One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist. [R.] [1913 Webster]

God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant left me.— Fuller.[1913 Webster]

4.A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife. [1913 Webster]

The husband and wife are one person in law.— Blackstone.[1913 Webster]

5.The male of a pair of animals. [R.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

A ship's husband (Naut.), an agent representing the owners of a ship, who manages its expenses and receipts. [1913 Webster]

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