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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



... therefore, preferred to stand sentence on the lesser count of rambling into other people's compounds out of calling hours. Platte forgot about the watch business after a while, and moved down-country with his regiment. Mrs. Larkyn went home when her husband's tour of Indian service expired. She ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... delight and then haul down the curtain quick before the audience has had time to pull itself together. See? We'd treat the author very handsome if we could get hold of a good piece with a big emotional part for the wife ... and although I'm her husband ... in the sight of God, anyway ... I will say this for her, Mac, there's not another woman on the stage ... Ellen Terry, Mrs. Pat or Sarah Bernhardt herself ... can hold a candle to Dolly for emotional parts. Of course, ...
— The Foolish Lovers • St. John G. Ervine
... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, Mr. Lorry came in late, from Tellson's, and sat himself down by Lucie and her husband in the dark window. It was a hot, wild night, and they were all three reminded of the old Sunday night when they had looked at the lightning from ...
— A Tale of Two Cities - A Story of the French Revolution • Charles Dickens
... "And husband of the delectable Psyche?" I cried, recalling certain facts I had learned. "You look ...
— Olympian Nights • John Kendrick Bangs
... the God described in the Old Testament is not the real God. Certainly it is not cursing God to declare that the real God never sanctioned slavery or polygamy, or commanded wars of extermination, or told a husband to separate from his wife if she differed with him in religion. The people who say these things of God—if there is any God at all—do what little there is in their power, unwittingly of course, ...
— The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. - Interviews • Robert Green Ingersoll


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