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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



... attempted to bear the blame. Though married in haste they did not wait for leisure before they repented, but commenced quarrelling at once, until Esme, in order to test his love and that of an admirer who was helping to complicate matters, "bobbed" her hair and threw the severed tresses at her husband. After this they separated. Presently the War came, and the admirer, who was really quite a nice person, was killed, and Tourntourq, who was apparently a lunatic, though that is not stated in so many words, was blinded. It seems quite superfluous ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, March 12, 1919 • Various
... is given in a description of the anxiety and longing of the soldiers' wives for their return. We must suppose one of the wives to be the speaker throughout. The fourth stanza shows how she had resorted to divination to allay her fears about her husband. ...
— The Shih King • James Legge
... daytime in the fields. They killed the men who went to gather firewood, and they stole our cattle. At night they would come to the Zaashtesh and carry off the women and the girls. There lived at the time a young koitza who had recently married, and she liked her husband. One evening after dark this woman went to the corral. There the Moshome seized her, closed her mouth with their hands, dragged her from the village, tied and gagged her, and placed her on a horse; then they rode off as fast as they could, far, far away to the ...
— The Delight Makers • Adolf Bandelier
... insinuating to me, "That this was the worst time of the year for provisions, that they were at a great distance from any market, that they were afraid I should be starved, and they knew they kept me to my loss," the lady went, and left me to her husband (for they took special care I should never be alone.) As soon as her back was turned, the little misses ran backwards and forwards every moment; and constantly as they came in or went out, made a curtsy directly at me, which in good ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D., Volume IX; • Jonathan Swift
... the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she ...
— God and my Neighbour • Robert Blatchford


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