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▪ I. husbanding, vbl. n.
[f. husband v.]
1. Cultivation, culture, tillage (of soil or plants).
c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 469 Oon good poynt of husbondyng. 1587Golding De Mornay xii. (1617) 188 Land which for want of tillage and husbanding brought forth briars and thistles. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 153 Describing the manner of husbanding and tilling of the Earth. 1665Sir. T. Roe's Voy. E. Ind. in G. Havers P. della Valle's Trav. E. India 330 Salads, which the soyl brings forth without husbanding. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1732) 65 For the husbanding of these Mountains, their manner was [etc.]. 1898Westm. Gaz. 31 Mar. 5/1 Waiting for the produce of their husbanding.
2. Economical and thrifty use (of anything); the action of saving or storing up.
c1420[see 1]. 15971st Pt. Return fr. Parnass. i. i. 205 For the husbanding of my witt I put it out to interest, and make it returne twoo phamphlets a weeke. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 17 The riches of a prince consist not in the abundance of revenues, but in the thriftie husbanding therof. 1708Royal Proclam. in Lond. Gaz. No. 4452/1 The Curing, Salting, Drying and Husbanding of their Fish. c1842E. J. Lance Cottage Farmer 7 For the husbanding of manures and their increase. 1872Globe 5 Aug., A careful husbanding of the elements of wealth.
3. Mating with a husband.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. x. (1593) 251 O Atalanta, thou at all of husband hast no need, Shun husbanding.
▪ II. husbanding, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That husbands; sparing, economical, parsimonious.
1811Southey in Q. Rev. VI. 275 The husbanding politicians and peace-praters. |