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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.

Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood.

The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband.

Destitute of a husband. Shak.

Frugal; thrifty. [R.] Tusser.

The master of a family. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift. There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. Shak.

e which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife. Abbott.

The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.

An omen. [Obs.] High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes. Chapman.

Admission to sexual intercourse. During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown. Blackstone.

r than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.

Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between. Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh. 1 Kings iii. 1.

including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb.

An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same. Wharton. Burrill.

Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. [Obs.] Jacob.

Improvement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor. Blackstone.

wer, the setting out by metes and bounds of the widow's thirds or portion in the deceased husband's estate, and allotting it to her.

The relation of some employment or action; occupied with; as, at engraving; at husbandry; at play; at work; at meat (eating); except at puns.