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<hw>Hurt"less</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Doing no injury; harmless; also, unhurt; without injury or harm.</def>

<blockquote>Gentle dame so <b>hurtless</b> and so true. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

-- <wordforms><wf>Hurt"less*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Hurt"less*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Husband</h1> <Xpage=714>

<hw>Hus"band</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>hosebonde</ets>, <ets>husbonde</ets>, a husband, the master of the house or family, AS. <ets>h<?/sbonda</ets> master of the house; <ets>h<?/s</ets> house + <ets>bunda</ets>, <ets>bonda</ets>, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. <ets>h<?/sb\'d3ndi</ets> house master, husband; <ets>h<?/s</ets> house + <ets>b<?/andi</ets> dwelling, inhabiting, p.pr. of <ets>b<?/a</ets> to dwell; akin to AS. <ets>b<?/an</ets>, Goth. <ets>bauan</ets>. See <er>House Be</er>, and cf. <er>Bond</er> a slave, <er>Boor</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>The painful <b>husband</b>, plowing up his ground. <i>Hakewill.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He is the neatest <b>husband</b> for curious ordering his domestic and field accommodations. <i>Evelyn.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good <b>husband</b>, to improve the short remnant left me. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to <i>wife</i>.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>husband</b> and wife are one person in law. <i>Blackstone.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>The male of a pair of animals.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<cs><col>A ship's husband</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>an agent representing the owners of a ship, who manages its expenses and receipts.</cd></cs>

<h1>Husband</h1> <Xpage=714>

<hw>Hus"band</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Husbanded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Husbanding</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.</def>

<blockquote>For my means, I'll <b>husband</b> them so well, They shall go far. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cultivate, as land; to till.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Land so trim and rarely <b>husbanded</b>. <i>Evelyn.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To furnish with a husband.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Husbandable</h1> <Xpage=714>

<hw>Hus"band*a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy.</def>

<i>Sherwood.</i>

<h1>Husbandage</h1> <Xpage=714>

<hw>Hus"band*age</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband.</def>