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Husband   /hˈəzbənd/   Listen
noun
Husband  n.  
1.
The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family. (Obs.)
2.
A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman. (Obs.) "The painful husband, plowing up his ground." "He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestic and field accommodations."
3.
One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist. (R.) "God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant left me."
4.
A married man; a man who has a wife; the correlative to wife. "The husband and wife are one person in law."
5.
The male of a pair of animals. (R.)
A ship's husband (Naut.), an agent representing the owners of a ship, who manages its expenses and receipts.


verb
Husband  v. t.  (past & past part. husbanded; pres. part. husbanding)  
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. "For my means, I'll husband them so well, They shall go far."
2.
To cultivate, as land; to till. (R.) "Land so trim and rarely husbanded."
3.
To furnish with a husband. (R.)





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"Husband" Quotes from Famous Books



... plopping of the guttered rain Sounds like a heavy footstep in the dark, Where every shadow thrown by flickering light Seems like her husband halting at the door, I say a woman sits, and waits, and sits, Then trims her fire, ...
— The Poems of Henry Kendall • Henry Kendall
... Her husband laid down the volume he had last taken up, leaned back in his chair, folded his knotted hands over his knee and looked ...
— Greifenstein • F. Marion Crawford
... habitually devout. His reverence for religion is seen in his example, his public communications, and his private writings. He uniformly ascribed his successes to the beneficent agency of the Supreme Being. Charitable and humane, he was liberal to the poor, and kind to those in distress. As a husband, son, and brother, he was tender and affectionate. Without vanity, ostentation, or pride, he never spoke of himself or his actions unless required by circumstances which ...
— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... first time in her life she felt the delicious power of wealth. Only the silver-haired Lemuel Boardman knew of the armed neutrality now secretly arranged, which was to buy a legal separation after six months from her nominal husband in ...
— The Midnight Passenger • Richard Henry Savage
... XL. XLI. Lovelace to Belford.— Particulars of what passed between himself, Colonel Morden, Lord M., and Mowbray, on the visit made him by the Colonel. Proposes Belford to Miss Charlotte Montague, by way of raillery, for an husband.—He encloses Brand's letter, which misrepresents (from credulity and officiousness, rather than ill-will) ...
— Clarissa, Or The History Of A Young Lady, Volume 8 • Samuel Richardson


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