Definition of husband

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Husband (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..

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Marry :: Marry (v. t.) To join according to law, (a man) to a woman as his wife, or (a woman) to a man as her husband. See the Note to def. 4..
Husbanding :: Husbanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Husban.
Sutteeism :: Suttee (n.) The act of burning a widow on the funeral pile of her husband.
Infare :: Infare (n.) A house-warming; especially, a reception, party, or entertainment given by a newly married couple, or by the husband upon receiving the wife to his house..
Uxoricide :: Uxoricide (n.) The murder of a wife by her husband.
Consort :: Consort (n.) One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband..
Widow :: Widow (n.) A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband..
Curtesy :: Curtesy (n.) the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands..
Covert :: Covert (v. t.) Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband..
Marital :: Marital (v.) Of or pertaining to a husband; as, marital rights, duties, authority..
Georgic :: Georgic (a.) A rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating lands, etc.; as, the Georgics of Virgil..
To :: To (prep.) Accord; adaptation; as, an occupation to his taste; she has a husband to her mind..
Feere :: Feere (n.) A consort, husband or wife; a companion; a fere..
Husband :: Husband (n.) A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.
Uxorious :: Uxorious (a.) Excessively fond of, or submissive to, a wife; being a dependent husband..
Farmer :: Farmer (n.) One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman.
Paramour :: Paramour (n.) A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman..
Ravishment :: Ravishment (n.) The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, of a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband..
Faithless :: Faithless (a.) Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife..
Stepdame :: Stepchild (n.) A son or daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
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