Husband /(?)/

Hus·band

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.
    — Hakewill.
    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.]

Phrases & Compounds
A ship's husband
an agent representing the owners of a ship, who manages its expenses and receipts.

Husband

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Husbanded; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.]