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t of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy. Himself busy in charge of the household economies. Froude.

See Economy.

The management of land; rural economy; agriculture.

ng the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.

tic, the application of the science of numbers to problems in civil government, political economy, and social science. -- Universal arithmetic, the name given by Sir Isaac Newton to algebra.

contraction of parts by applications; the action of an astringent substance on the animal economy. Dunglison.

Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail. The avail of a deathbed repentance. Jer. Taylor.

which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.

to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm.

The science of exchanges, a branch of political economy.

Scrimping; mean; as, cheeseparing economy.

The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy.

That branch of political economy which relates to the production of wealth.

Disturbance of the functions of the animal economy of the soul; sickness; derangement. "Disorder in the body." Locke.

a system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations. Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man. Rogers.

Relating to domestic economy, or to the management of household affairs. And doth employ her economic art And busy care, her household to preserve. Sir J. Davies.

With economy; with careful management; with prudence in expenditure.

Political economy; the science of the utilities or the useful application of wealth or material resources. See Political economy, under Political. "In politics and economics." V. Knox.

One who is conversant with political economy; a student of economics.

To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income. [Written also economise.] Expenses in the city were to be economized. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Calculating how to economize time. W. Irving.