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Cognate with Icelandic húsbóndi (“head of household”), Faroese húsbóndi (“husband”), Norwegian husbond (“head of household, husband”), Swedish husbonde (“master”), Danish husbond (“husband”) ( Old Danish husbonde)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder." }, { "mean": "A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.\n1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. , part II (books IV–VI), London: for William Ponsonby, →OCLC: a withered tree, through husbands toyle, Is often seene full freshly to have florisht \n1627, G H, An Apologie of the Povver and Prouidence of God in the Gouernment of the VVorld. , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Iohn Lichfield and VVilliam Turner, , →OCLC:The painfull husband plowing up his ground, Shall finde all fret and rust both pikes and shields\n1681 September 9 (Gregorian calendar)​, John Evelyn, “”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, , volume I, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, ; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, , published 1819, →OCLC:\nHe is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestick and field accommodations." }, { "mean": "A prudent or frugal manager.\n1645, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times, Occasional Meditations: V:God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant thereof.\n1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Chapter 16:So I went and fetched a good dram of rum, and gave him; for I had been so good a husband of my rum that I had a great deal left. When he had drank it, I made him take the two fowling-pieces, which we always carried, and load them with large swan-shot, as big as small pistol-bullets. Then I took four muskets, and loaded them with two slugs and five small bullets each; and my two pistols I loaded with a brace of bullets each. I hung my great sword, as usual, naked, by my side, and gave Friday his hatchet." }, { "mean": "A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.\nYou should start dating so you can find a suitable husband.\n1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC:\nThe husband and wife are one person in law.\n1913, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., , , →OCLC, page 0016:\nA great bargain also had been the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.\n1922, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion." }, { "mean": "The male of a pair of animals.\n1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:Husband of the Herd" }, { "mean": "(UK) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist." }, { "mean": "A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.\nWhile reading her book, Sally leaned back against her husband, wishing it were the human kind." }, { "mean": "(UK dialectal) A polled tree; a pollard." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.\nc. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :And for my meanes, I'll husband them so well,They shall go farre with little." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To conserve.\n1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe\n...I found pens, ink, and paper, and I husbanded them to the utmost; and I shall show that while my ink lasted, I kept things very exact, but after that was gone I could not, for I could not make any ink by any means that I could devise." }, { "mean": "(transitive, obsolete) To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.\n1672 May 29 (Gregorian calendar)​, John Evelyn, “”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, , volume I, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, ; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, , published 1819, →OCLC:\nLand so trim and rarely husbanded." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To provide with a husband.\n1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 116, column 2:Thinke you, I am no ſtronger then my Sex Being ſo Father'd, and ſo Husbanded?" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }