For my means, I'll husband them so well, They shall
go far. --Shak.
2. To cultivate, as land; to till. [R.]
Land so trim and rarely husbanded. --Evelyn.
3. To furnish with a husband. [R.] --Shak.
2. A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman. [Obs.] --Shak.
The painful husband, plowing up his ground.
--Hakewill.
He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his
domestic and field accommodations. --Evelyn.
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.
--Fuller.
4. A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to
wife.
The husband and wife are one person in law.
--Blackstone.
5. The male of a pair of animals. [R.] --Dryden.
{A ship's husband} (Naut.), an agent representing the owners
of a ship, who manages its expenses and receipts.