Hus"band (?), n. [OE. hosebonde, husbonde, a husband, the master of the house or family, AS. h&?;sbonda master of the house; h&?;s house + bunda, bonda, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. h&?;sbōndi house master, husband; h&?;s house + b&?;andi dwelling, inhabiting, p. pr. of b&?;a to dwell; akin to AS. b&?;an, Goth. bauan. See House Be, and cf. Bond a slave, Boor.] 1. The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family. [Obs.]

2. A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman. [Obs.] Shak.

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.] Dryden.

Hus"band, 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.] Shak.

• man in a marriage or marital relationship; man married to a woman
  
• To conserve, to nurture, to farm.
  
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