husband

A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.

You should start dating so you can find a suitable husband.

The husband and wife are one person in law.

A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.

A prudent or frugal manager.

God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant thereof.

[S]o I went and fetch’d a good Dram of Rum, and gave him; for I had been ſo good a Husband of my Rum, that I had a great deal left: When he had drank it, I made him take the two Fowling-Pieces, which we always carry’d, and load them with large Swan-Shot, as big as ſmall Piſtol Bullets; then I took four Muſkets, and loaded them with two Slugs, and five ſmall Bullets each; and my two Piſtols I loaded with a Brace of Bullets each; I hung my great Sword as uſual, naked by my Side, and gave Friday his Hatchet.

The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.

A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.

[…] a withered tree, through husbands toyle, Is often seene full freshly to have florisht […]

The painfull husband plowing up his ground, Shall finde all fret and rust both pikes and shields

To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.

And for my meanes, I'll husband them so well, They shall go farre with little.

To conserve.

1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe ...I found pens, ink, and paper, and I husbanded them to the utmost; and I shall show that while my ink lasted, I kept things very exact, but after that was gone I could not, for I could not make any ink by any means that I could devise.

To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.

Land so trim and rarely husbanded.

To provide with a husband.

Thinke you, I am no ſtronger then my Sex Being ſo Father'd, and ſo Husbanded?

To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.

A surname.

An unincorporated community in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States, named after Harmon Husband.