husband

husband is a Noun

Definition:

[1] The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family. [Obs.]

[2] 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.

[3] One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist. [R.] God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant left me. Fuller.

[4] A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife. The husband and wife are one person in law. Blackstone.

[5] The male of a pair of animals. [R.] Dryden. A ship`s husband (Naut.), an agent representing the owners of a ship, who manages its expenses and receipts.