Husband
['hʌzbənd]
Definition
(n.) The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.
(n.) A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.
(n.) One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist.
(n.) A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.
(n.) The male of a pair of animals.
(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.
(v. t.) To cultivate, as land; to till.
(v. t.) To furnish with a husband.
Checked by Cindy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Spouse, married man.
v. a. Save, economize, spend frugally, manage with frugality.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ECONOMIZE]
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Definition
n. a married man: (B.) a man to whom a woman is betrothed: one who manages affairs with prudence: (naut.) the owner of a ship who manages its concerns in person.—v.t. to supply with a husband: to manage with economy.—n. Hus′bandage allowance or commission of a ship's husband.—adjs. Hus′bandless (Shak.) without a husband; Hus′bandly frugal thrifty.—ns. Hus′bandman a working farmer: one who labours in tillage; Hus′bandry the business of a farmer: tillage: economical management: thrift.
Editor: Omar
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that your husband is leaving you, and you do not understand why, there will be bitterness between you, but an unexpected reconciliation will ensue. If he mistreats and upbraids you for unfaithfulness, you will hold his regard and confidence, but other worries will ensue and you are warned to be more discreet in receiving attention from men. If you see him dead, disappointment and sorrow will envelop you. To see him pale and careworn, sickness will tax you heavily, as some of the family will linger in bed for a time. To see him gay and handsome, your home will be filled with happiness and bright prospects will be yours. If he is sick, you will be mistreated by him and he will be unfaithful. To dream that he is in love with another woman, he will soon tire of his present surroundings and seek pleasure elsewhere. To be in love with another woman's husband in your dreams, denotes that you are not happily married, or that you are not happy unmarried, but the chances for happiness are doubtful. For an unmarried woman to dream that she has a husband, denotes that she is wanting in the graces which men most admire. To see your husband depart from you, and as he recedes from you he grows larger, inharmonious surroundings will prevent immediate congeniality. If disagreeable conclusions are avoided, harmony will be reinstated. For a woman to dream she sees her husband in a compromising position with an unsuspected party, denotes she will have trouble through the indiscretion of friends. If she dreams that he is killed while with another woman, and a scandal ensues, she will be in danger of separating from her husband or losing property. Unfavorable conditions follow this dream, though the evil is often exaggerated.
Typist: Rex
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. One who having dined is charged with the care of the plate.
Checker: Mollie
Unserious Contents or Definition
The next thing to a wife. From Eng. hussy, woman, and bond, tie. Tied to a woman.
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Examples
- It is curious that my mother, too, ran away from her family, but not for the sake of her husband. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She would have spoken to tell her husband her fears, but checked herself. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- This woman's first husband is in that cottage. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mrs. Bulstrode did not wish to go nearer to the facts than in the phrase make some amends; knowing that her husband must understand her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My own sister as a wife, Sir Thomas Bertram as a husband, are my standards of perfection. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Your husband will be rightly valued. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Did she know where her husband was? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Better be happy old maids than unhappy wives, or unmaidenly girls, running about to find husbands, said Mrs. March decidedly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I thank you for my share of the favour, said Elizabeth; but I do not particularly like your way of getting husbands. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- We have known _their_ husbands and fathers laid in prison and kept from them, often enough? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I dare say at some time or other Sentiment and Comedy will bring THEIR husbands home and have THEIR nests upstairs too. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mrs. Bayham Badger has not the appearance, Miss Summerson, of a lady who has had two former husbands? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Men and women, husbands and wives, quarrel horribly, Shirley. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I tremble at the frightful danger into which our husbands, our friends, our brave troops and allies, are rushing. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- What little there was must at any rate be husbanded to the utmost; she could not trust herself again to the perils of a sleepless night. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Editor: Pierre