Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Housewive"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Housewife \House"wife`\, Housewive \House"wive`\, v. t.
To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other
female manager; to economize.
Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they
have well housewived. --Fuller.
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