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3. To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.

The noise of battle hurtled in the air.

Shak.

The earthquake sound Hurtling 'death the solid ground.

Mrs. Browning.

Hur"tle (?), v. t. 1. To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish. [Obs.]

His harmful club he gan to hurtle high.

Spenser.

2. To push; to jostle; to hurl.

And he hurtleth with his horse adown.

Chaucer.

Hur"tle*ber`ry (?), n. [Cf. Huckleberry, Whortleberry.] See Whortleberry.

Hurt"less (?), a. Doing no injury; harmless; also, unhurt; without injury or harm.

Gentle dame so hurtless and so true.

Spenser.

-- Hurt"less*ly, adv. -- Hurt"less*ness, n.

Hus"band (?), n. [OE. hosebonde, husbonde, a husband, the master of the house or family, AS. h&?;sbonda master of the house; h&?;s house + bunda, bonda, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. h&?;sbndi house master, husband; h&?;s house + b&?;andi dwelling, inhabiting, p. pr. of b&?;a to dwell; akin to AS. b&?;an, Goth. bauan. See House Be, and cf. Bond a slave, Boor.] 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.