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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



... banquet given at his installation Appius Claudius, then Chief of the Senate, offered him his daughter in marriage. When Appius returned home and informed his wife that he had just betrothed their daughter, she exclaimed, "Why in such a hurry, unless you have got Tib. Gracchus for her husband?" Sempronia, the only sister of Tiberius, was married to the younger Scipio Africanus. Tiberius was thus, by birth and marriage, connected with the noblest families in the Republic—the grandson of the conqueror of Hannibal—the son-in-law of the Chief of the Senate—and ...
— A Smaller History of Rome • William Smith and Eugene Lawrence
... Sulu make the bankrupt debtor the slave of his creditor, and not only the man himself, but his family also are enslaved. To free them there is only one means left to the husband, the sacrifice of his life. Reduced to this extremity he does not hesitate, he takes the formidable oath. From that time forward he is enrolled in the ranks of the juramentados, and has nothing to do but await the hour ...
— The Boys of '98 • James Otis
... heart I wish you well. Now that the first bitterness is past I see that you did the only possible thing. I hope that you'll be very happy. Robert Boulger is an excellent fellow, and I'm sure he'll make you a much better husband than I ...
— The Explorer • W. Somerset Maugham
... name given by the Germans to Frederick V., husband of Elizabeth, daughter of James I., his Winter Queen, who was elected king of Bohemia by the Protestants in 1619, and compelled to ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... Marguerite. I do regret and shall always regret, my husband; but it is now two years since he died. I am only twenty-eight years old, and my grief at his loss ought not always to control every action and thought of my life. You, Marguerite, who are the model of a wife, would not believe me if ...
— Ten Years Later - Chapters 1-104 • Alexandre Dumas, Pere


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