Part 5456

<h1>Husbandless</h1> <Xpage=714>

<hw>Hus"band*less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Destitute of a husband.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Husbandly</h1> <Xpage=714>

<hw>Hus"band*ly</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Frugal; thrifty.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Tusser.</i>

<h1>Husbandman</h1> <Xpage=714>

<hw>Hus"band*man</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Husbandmen</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The master of a family.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground.</def>

<h1>Husbandry</h1> <Xpage=714>

<hw>Hus"band*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift.</def>

<blockquote>There's <b>husbandry</b> in heaven; Their candles are all out. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming.</def>

<blockquote><b>Husbandry</b> supplieth all things necessary for food. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Hush</h1> <Xpage=714>

<hw>Hush</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Hushed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Hushing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>huschen</ets>, <ets>hussen</ets>, prob. of imitative origin; cf. LG. <ets>hussen</ets> to lull to sleep, G. <ets>husch</ets> quick, make haste, be silent.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.</def>

<blockquote>My tongue shall <b>hush</b> again this storm of war. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe.</def>

<blockquote>With thou, then, <b>Hush</b> my cares? <i>Otway.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>And <b>hush'd</b> my deepest grief of all. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To hush up</col>, <cd>to procure silence concerning; to suppress; to keep secret. "This matter is <i>hushed up<i>."</cd></cs>

<i>Pope.</i>

<h1>Hush</h1> <Xpage=714>

<hw>Hush</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To become or to keep still or quiet; to become silent; -- esp. used in the imperative, as an exclamation; be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise.</def>

<blockquote><b>Hush</b>, idle words, and thoughts of ill. <i>Keble.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>But all these strangers' presence every one did <b>hush</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Hush</h1> <Xpage=714>