Definition of husband

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Husband (v. t.) To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy..

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Agriculture :: Agriculture (n.) The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming..
Orpheus :: Orpheus (n.) The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre..
Coverture :: Coverture (n.) The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte..
Spouse :: Spouse (n.) A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife..
Cohabit :: Cohabit (v.) To dwell or live together as husband and wife.
Wed :: Wed (n.) To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse.
Amenable :: Amenable (a.) Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband..
Birlaw :: Birlaw (n.) A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law.
Uxorious :: Uxorious (a.) Excessively fond of, or submissive to, a wife; being a dependent husband..
Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
Husbandry :: Husbandry (n.) Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift.
Goodman :: Goodman (n.) A husband; the master of a house or family; -- often used in speaking familiarly.
Trigamy :: Trigamy (n.) The act of marrying, or the state of being married, three times; also, the offense of having three husbands or three wives at the same time..
Marry :: Marry (v. t.) To join according to law, (a man) to a woman as his wife, or (a woman) to a man as her husband. See the Note to def. 4..
Dowager :: Dowager (n.) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease..
Husbanding :: Husbanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Husban.
Covert :: Covert (v. t.) Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband..
Tillman :: Tillman (n.) A man who tills the earth; a husbandman.
Polygamy :: Polygamy (n.) The having of a plurality of wives or husbands at the same time; usually, the marriage of a man to more than one woman, or the practice of having several wives, at the same time; -- opposed to monogamy; as, the nations of the East practiced polygamy. See the Note under Bigamy, and cf. Polyandry..
Boor :: Boor (n.) A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.
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