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husbandn. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on an early Scandinavian lexical item. Etymons: house n.1, bond n.2 Etymology: < house n.1 + bond n.2, after early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic húsbóndi (Icelandic húsbóndi ), Norwegian husbond , Old Swedish husbonde (Swedish husbonde ), Old Danish husbonde (Danish husbond )). Compare housewife n.Notes on forms. The α. forms show (expected) shortening of the vowel of the first syllable before the consonant group -sb- (compare α. forms at housewife n.), contributing to the compound ultimately becoming opaque for modern speakers. In early instances of the β. forms the medial -e- may be intended simply to indicate the voiced quality of the preceding consonant, but later instances reflect continuing association with house n.1 With forms with a in the second syllable compare variants at bond n.2, itself a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Semantic development. Like the present word, Old English bōnda bond n.2 is attested chiefly in the sense ‘head or master of a household’ (compare sense 1, especially quot. lOE), although in its very earliest use bōnda is attested (chiefly in writings attributed to Wulfstan) typically in legal use and with implications of social rank. It has been suggested that the adoption of husband n. in early use may partly have been motivated by a desire for a single-word equivalent for classical Latin paterfamiliās paterfamilias n. and its use in the Vulgate, although in quot. OE at sense 1 hūsbonda does not translate the Latin word. The Old English simplex bōnda was also occasionally used in legal contexts in the sense ‘male spouse, married man’. This sense is also attested for Old Icelandic húsbóndi , but not attested for the present word until the early Middle English period (see sense 2). In Old English this concept was frequently expressed by words with the basic sense ‘man’ (compare wēr were n.1, ceorl churl n., and also discussion of the semantic development at wife n.). With use in reference to manorial tenants or farmers (see sense 4), compare use of Old English bōnda bond n.2 with reference to the rank of free peasant, especially in the compound bond-land n. For further discussion see S. M. Pons-Sanz Lexical Effects Anglo-Scand. Ling. Contact on Old Eng. (2013) 215–6. Borrowings into Anglo-Norman and post-classical Latin. The word was also borrowed into Anglo-Norman and post-classical Latin in a number of senses (although apparently not with reference to marital status); several of these are attested earlier in Anglo-Norman and post-classical Latin, which probably imply earlier currency of these senses in English (compare especially senses 4 and 5). Compare Anglo-Norman husbande, husbonde, husebaunde, husebunde husbandman (late 12th cent.), housekeeper, steward (late 12th cent.), head of a family or household (mid 13th cent.), post-classical Latin husbondus householder (frequently from early 12th cent. in British sources), steward, keeper (early 12th cent. in a British source), manager, caretaker (early 13th cent. in a British source), husbandman, tenant with agricultural duties (frequently from late 13th cent. in British sources, especially from Scotland and northern England). I. Uses relating to a family or household. society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > head of household OE (Corpus Cambr.) xx. 28 Ne sitte ge on þam fyrmestan setlum þe læs þe arwurðre wer æfter þe cume & se husbonda [c1200 Hatton husbunde] hate þe arisan. lOE (Laud) anno 1048 An his manna..wolde wician æt anes bundan huse his unðances & gewundode þone husbundon, & se husbunda ofsloh þone oðerne. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 165 Nis þe gist siker of þe husebonde, ne noðer of oðer. c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1938) 6 Þe husebonde, þet is wit, warneð his hus. c1300 St. Francis (Laud) l. 89 in C. Horstmann (1887) 56 (MED) Þo þis housebonde cam hom and ne founde him [sc. his son] nouȝt þere..and axede ȝware he were. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xiv. xlix. 720 Predium... Is a place in þe whiche an husbond beldeþ his hous and wonnynge place in þe myddil of his owne feeldes. (Harl. 221) 248 Hosebonde (or husbonde, infra) of gouernaunce of an howsholde, paterfamilias. c1450 (1905) II. 385 (MED) Þe preste..gaf þis husband, in-stead of his howsell, þe same yll peny þat he offerd. 2. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married man > [noun] > husband a1275 in C. Brown (1932) 32 (MED) Teche me wou i sule don þat min hosebonde me louien wolde. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 193 in C. Horstmann (1887) 112 Is wif gret Ioie made with hire housebonde. c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. i. 16 Joseph, the husbond [L. virum] of Marie. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng (Harl.) l. 1706 (MED) Þou shal nat betrouþe a womman with hand þe whylys here husband ys lyuand. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 10158 Anna..ioachim had til husband. a1425 (a1400) in M. Day (1921) 4 (MED) Ihesu..Teche my soule, þat is thi wyfe, To loue best no thing in londe Bot the, Ihesu, here dere housebonde. a1500 (?c1450) i. 20 Thyn hosbonde and thow were at debate. 1549 (STC 16267) Matrimonie f. xiii*v Wilt thou haue this man to thy wedded houseband? a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. ii. 68 Thou hast no husband yet, nor I no wife: Giue me thy hand. View more context for this quotation 1638 J. Ford v. 69 Hisband, stand to thy tackling hisband, like a man of mettall. 1705 tr. D. Bouhours ii. 90 They represent to her that she is powerless; that her Husband is inconstant. 1765 W. Blackstone I. xv. 430 By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law. 1830 W. H. Ireland IV. 405 She had issue only by her second husband, Sir Reginald Braybrooke. 1861 G. Eliot xi. 187 As I say, Mr Have-your-own-way is the best husband. 1899 17 Mar. 4 Sidney Carton..goes to the guillotine in place of Charles Darnay, the husband of the woman he loves. 1937 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 13 Aug. in (1990) i. 70 Don't you think there's something pleasantly domestic about a husband and wife sitting side by side with their eyes glued to peepholes, watching the baser element whoop it up? 1972 Queen Elizabeth II in V. Ferguson (1978) 55 I think people really will concede that on this of all days I should begin my speech with the words ‘My husband and I’. 2001 (Nexis) 4 June 18 Last April Wabeke and Swinkels were married, husband and husband, under the new Dutch law. 2013 June 113/1 A woman is killed by her husband, her boyfriend, or her same-sex partner. 1602 T. North tr. S. Goulart 109 He [sc. the emperor Nero] maried one Pythagoras as his husband. 1664 E. Leigh 230 He [sc. Helagabalus] so favoured Aurelius Zoticus, that himself commanded him to be taken..for the Emperors husband. 1761 J. Mills tr. J. B. L. Crevier VIII. xxiii. 255 His [sc. Helagabalus'] husband was one Hierocles, originally a Carian slave. 1883 W. A. Hammond i. 57 The one who was in this disgusting arrangement to act the part of ‘husband’ came to his ‘wife's’ bed and remained there during the night. 1931 37 248 These ‘honies’ refer to each other as ‘my man’ and ‘my woman’, ‘my wife’ and ‘my husband’. 1942 23 May 10/1 Sapiens, as the ‘wife’ [of Hippolyta], stays at home while his ‘husband’, as king, reigns. 1966 27 33/1 One partner..was put in the punishment cells. His ‘husband’ could not get to him. 2004 M. Epprecht 94 Because of a moral obligation to provide for all of their wyfies fairly..most prison husbands remain serially monogamous. 1946 J. Vining Diary 23 Aug. in (1980) II. 1 There's someone on the phone..and he wants to know if his husband's here. 1957 5 Dec. 42 One of the effeminate male owners [of the shop] slapped a guest for making a pass at his ‘husband’. 1994 28 June 71/3 I thought of course I would take my lover [to the party], whom I refer to as my husband, since I find the word lover far too personal. 2007 J. Perez iv. 183 Harvey..lives in Las Vegas with his husband. 3. In extended use. 1607 E. Topsell 60 A Bull is the husband of a Cow, and ring-leader of the heard. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil 103 Whom to reserve for Husband of the Herd. View more context for this quotation 1880 Nov. 4/3 Refrain from putting the milk-pail under the cow's husband. 1894 H. Drummond 379 The apathy and estrangement between husband and wife in the animal world. 1941 C. Reynolds xiv. 153 If they were already in calf, knowledge of their husband should be required. 1976 10 Dec. 73/3 (advt.) Versatile donkey mare..£75...Her husband, registered, 4 yrs,..£45. 2016 www.horseandhound.co.uk 23 Mar. (O.E.D. Archive) I have been looking at Magic Darco as a suitable ‘husband’ for my mare. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > grape-vine > parts of 1628 H. Reynolds tr. T. Tasso sig. B2v See with what amorous and redoubled twinings The louing Vine her husband [It. marito] faire intangles. a1796 S. Pegge (1809) 59 The husband, as we may call it, being a tree of some kind, and I suppose the elm chiefly, the grape could never ripen kindly. 1736 J. Logan Let. 19 June in W. Darlington (1849) 307 His [sc. Linnæus's] method in the Vegetables is altogether new, for he takes all his distinctions from the stamina and the styles, the first of which he calls husbands, and the other wives. 1760 J. Lee 73 The Title Monandria expresses, that the Flowers of this Class have but one Husband, that is, one Stamen. 1785 W. Marshall 47 Confederate Males. (Syngenesia). Husbands joined together at the top. 1901 Husband,..applied to the male in diœcious plants. 2008 A. Wulf (2010) iii. 53 Flowering plants were divided into twenty-three classes according to the number of their male organs—the stamens, which he [sc. Linnaeus] called ‘husbands’. II. Uses relating to management, esp. of a farm or other establishment. the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific ranks of common people > [noun] > villein a1300 (c1275) (1991) 263 Fox is hire to name..Husebondes hire haten for hire harm-dedes. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 2427 in C. Horstmann (1887) 176 Mani on þudere drouȝ..Of seriaunz and of squiers and oþere house-bondes i-nowe; And þe simple men of þe londe..þicke þudere drowe. 1386 in J. Raine (1835) I. 40 Volo quod tota firma mea..condonetur omnibus tenentibus meis, videlicet Husbandis, Cotiers, et Bond. c1410 (c1350) (Harl. 7334) l. 13 He hadde ben wyde-wher but non housbond he was; Al þe lond þat he had, it was verrey purchas. 1431 in J. B. Paul (1882) II. 44/2 Five pondis..yhere be yhere, to be tane throw the handdis of our husbandis dowelland in the Kyrktoun of Strethechtin. c1440 (Thornton) (1949) l. 139 (MED) His husbandes [a1500 Cambr. husbondus] þat gaffe hym rent Heryede in plighte. c1450 (c1400) (Huntington) (1942) 85 (MED) Þei abiden & desiren þe deþ as doþ..a good hosebonde þe good haruest. c1480 (a1400) St. Julian 127 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) I. 461 A housband a-gane oure lay telyt his land one sownday. a1513 R. Fabyan (1516) II. f. lxxxiiii In this yere also fell so excedynge Rayne in the Monethes of Iulii & August, that husbondys myght not brynge in theyr lytle store of Corne. 1532–3 Act 24 Henry VIII c. 10 in (1963) III. 425 All the Tillers, Husbondes and Sowers of the Erthe. 1541 T. Elyot xxxviii. f. 92 The Romanes being good husbondes..ouerseing theire tyllage and husbondry. 1568 A. Scott (1896) 6 Merchandis to trafique and travell to and fro, Mechanikis wirk, husbandis to saw and scheir. 1613 W. Browne I. iii. 48 With shrubs that cloy ill husbands Meadow-ground. 1626 Court Bk. Barony of Leys in J. Stuart (1852) V. 223 The absentis from the wapinschaw [etc.].., the husbands to pay for thair hyremen. 1663 S. Fortrey 18 As for corn, it would be nothing the scarcer by inclosure..for then every ingenious husband would onely plow that land that he found most fitting for it. 1693 D. Leeds 4 This is the Season for good Husbands to lop and prune superfluous Branches from Fruit Trees and Vines. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil 88 When Husbands have survey'd the last degree, And utmost Files of Plants, and order'd ev'ry Tree. View more context for this quotation 1723 H. C. Life Carew in R. Carew (1769) p. xvi He was accounted..the greatest Husband, and most excellent Manager of Bees in Cornwall. 1733 J. Tull Pref. p v The Proverb..That once in seven Years, the worst Husbands have the best Corn. 1872 M. S. De Vere ix. 421 These sorts of fruits are raised so easily here that some good husbands plant great orchards of them. 5. society > authority > delegated authority > one having delegated or derived authority > [noun] > steward or bailiff in charge of another's property a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 35 Take hede of seuene persones..kyng in his rewme..housbond [L. œconomi] in hous, religious man in chirche. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 13400 (MED) Sir architricline, þat o þat hus was þan husband, And costes to þe bridal fand. a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 574 in (2002) i. 318 Now speke y wylle of tresurere, Husbonde and houswyf he is in fere. 1475 J. Paston in (2004) I. 487 I purpose to leeffe alle heere and come home to yow and be yowre hosbonde and balyff. ?1545 J. Bale ii. sig. Qviii The Byshoppes are the husbandes of their Romyshe churches. 1613 H. Finch (1636) 240 The King hath a proper Court..for all things touching his reuenues, called the Exchequer. The Judges whereof are called Barons, or housebands for the Kings Reuenue. 1695–6 Act 7 & 8 William III c. 13 §3 in (1963) VII. 78 It shall..be lawfull for the Royal African Company of England, to bring to His Majesties Tower of London..such Gold as shall bee Imported by them the Husband of the said Company first making Oath before the Warden Comptroller. 1737 (ed. 33) ii. 65 Officers..belonging to the Custom-House..The Husband for receiving and taking up all Goods consign'd from the Plantations on Account of the Duty of 4 and half per Cent. 1810 R. Southey (1965) I. 540 The Ballantynes find their account in their additional profits, one as printer, the other as publisher—or in technical phrase, husband of the work. 1833 319 Is there any other fee paid to you as town's husband [at Hull]? 1886 3 Aug. 6/3 ‘Husband to the East India Company’, a functionary whose duty seems to have been to look after the interests of his employers in their relations with the Custom House.] 1965 K. N. Chaudhuri (1999) i. v. 100 The duties assigned to the husband in relation to the Company's shipping were largely managerial... His function was to prepare the fleets for their outward voyage and to ‘discharge the incoming ships’. 2003 W. H. Greenleaf (new ed.) ii. 13 Eighteenth-century Hull where the corporation and the Town's Husband exercised a notable number of functions. society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] > for ships 1674 in E. E. Rich (1942) 86 Mr. Irelande bee ordred by the husbande to make nor prepare any more gunns. 1736 N. Bailey et al. (ed. 2) Husband of a Ship, a Person whose Office it is to see a Ship's Cargoe entered, landed, laid up in Warehouses, &c. for the Merchants. 1756 R. Rolt Husband of a ship, or the ship's husband. 1774 G. Colman iii. 32 The ship's husband, desires to speak with him. 1804 C. Abbott i. iii. 85 The husband had after his appointment acquired an interest in the ship by purchasing a part of the share..but..he had made the disbursements, and managed the concern, not in the character of a part-owner but of an agent. 1839 44 One of the brothers, who acted the part of working partner, or as it was called ship's husband. 1879 4 22 A ship's husband has the authority of the ship's owners to procure a charterparty, and to make contracts for their benefit. 1919 22 Oct. 5 Mr. Neilson contended that there was no implied duty or authority in a ship's husband to insure. 1987 W. Golding x. 136 I am the ship's husband... I am responsible for more things than you can imagine. 2012 (Nexis) 19 Apr. 7 During his evidence Mr Yeol said the ‘ship's husband’, or agent on behalf of Sajo Oyang, was Lyttelton firm Fisheries Consultancy (FishCon). 6. society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > manager or administrator > of money or affairs ?1506 (de Worde) sig. A.ivv Or elles thou hast ben a sory housband. 1553 T. Wilson 67 When I call..a pynche penye, a good husbande, a thriftye man. 1597 F. Bacon f. 10 A man is an ill husband of his Honour that entereth into any action, the failing wherein may disgrace him more than the carrying of it through can Honour him. 1656 Bp. J. Taylor Let. in (1857) III. 79 You see what a good husband I am of my paper and ink. 1719 D. Defoe 273 I had been so good a Husband of my Rum, that I had a great deal left. 1787 J. Hawkins 544 He was but an ill husband of his time. 1853 Dec. 323 The laborer on the farm is the best husband of his own estate. 1895 M. R. James 119 The next abbot was a bad husband to the Abbey. 1939 R. A. Knox v. 137 I knew his father a little, that was a bad husband of his own affairs. 1990 J. Van Nuys vii. 95 Arn Mellby..had been careful in his undertakings and was a careful husband of his goods. 1530 J. Palsgrave 233/1 Husbande, a thrivyng man, mesnagier. 1575 G. Fenton f. 72v If he be a husband of that he hath, they will say he is couetous. Phrases 1860 18 Aug. 6/4 The corbeille presented..by the husband-to-be, was considered as being remarkably tasteful. 1918 1 150/2 The husband-to-be and his father appear at the house of the girl. 1960 7 Mar. 7/6 The royal bride wore a red sari..her husband-to-be was clad in a neck-to-ankle satin tunic. 2008 24 Sept. 54/4 With her then husband-to-be based in Grimsby, she moved to a chambers outside London. Compounds C1. (In sense 2). 1682 A. Behn ii. ii. 20 Oh hideous, a Husband-Lover! 1854 Lady Lytton III. Conc. 524 The riven heart of the husband lover was buried in the coffin with his bride. 1882 3 Mar. 137/1 He had told us, through the lips of the husband-hero [of the poem], that [etc.]. 1990 J. Hall McCash in K. Busby & E. Kooper 433 The roles of amie and fame..incorporate diametrically opposed values in her relationship with her husband-lover. 1993 13 3 ‘Now I can speak at last,’ she cries, excited to tell her story to her husband-king. 1696 T. Southerne i. i. 5 You have persuaded me to leave dear England, and dearer London..to follow you a Husband-hunting into America. 1771 T. Smollett II. 188 I must make you acquainted with my sister Tabby's progress in husband-hunting. 1821 Ld. Byron iv. i. 114 And her, the homicide and husband-killer. 1823 Ld. Byron lxxxix. 147 Some sage, husband-hunting Countess. 1824 Jan. 17/1 Parents were incessantly on the alert for sons-in-law;..the brothers turned husband-hunters. 1845 C. Brontë 2 Apr. (1995) I. 388 If women wish to escape the stigma of husband-seeking they must act & look like marble or clay. 1868 25 July 44/1 This Husband-hunting which has its laws and seasons as well as otter or fox-hunting, or any other fashionable sport. 1897 Apr. 458 The Danaides, spring-nymphs as well as husband-slayers. 1899 26 Sept. 7/5 One of the greatest reasons of my contempt for them is their husband-catching propensities. 1905 8 Mar. 173/1 She will demand a better article than the mere husband-hunter has been able to stand out for. 1914 in P. Farrer (1997) I. 72 I read with great interest the letter from the husband-tamer appearing in last week's issue. 1984 A. G. Meyer in J. C. Fort 223 The ludicrous situation in which the husband-catching business placed a young woman easily led her to dream about her future husband as Prince Charming. 2011 L. Peril Intr. 5 The husband-hunting, pencil-pushing, coffee-getting, dumb-bunny, sex-bomb secretary depicted in advertisments [sic], novels, movies. C2. 1884 15 May 788 By the provisions of the Husband and Wife acts passed in 1879, and previously, the husband and wife are considered as constituting together a compound creature of the statute called a community. 1949 Oct. 101/1 A husband and wife team from..Cheshire..finished fourth. 1997 (Nexis) 4 Jan. f1 Last year they won the husband and wife class of a shoot in West Virginia. 2006 9 May 17/1 The husband-and-wife duo opened The Tea Emporium five years ago. 1858 5 Jan. 3/3 A husband beater... On Saturday evening..a young married woman..finding her husband..in the company of some women of bad character..seized a poker and struck him with it. 1888 13 Apr. (advt.) Our handkerchief, robe, and parasol buyer has this week been again in London... The Husband Beater, London Price, 15s 6d and 21s 6d; can be had in the Grand Colosseum, 8s 11d and 15s 6d each. 1892 2 May 2/4 The en-tout-cas is..not quite so large this year as it has been in some previous seasons, and the long handles facetiously called ‘husband-beaters’, have quite disappeared. 1908 Aug. 517/1 An umbrella has been referred to facetiously as a husband beater. 1980 M. A. Straus et al. iii. v. 114 Obviously, not everyone who grew up in a violent home will be a wife-beater or a husband-beater. 1811 W. Scott xxxix. 39 The sable land-flood from some swamp obscure, That poisons the glad husband-field with dearth. 1574 in W. Hutchinson (1778) II. 169 (note) They..doe owe by their tenure and by custome..certaine daysworks of husband labour for occupation and manuring of the said demayne lands. a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) ix. xviii. f. 336v, in at Husband Thir deuote persouns..gevin..to husband lauboure, quharethrow thai mycht sustene thare narow life. 1640 R. Baillie vi. 87 No law of God, no ancient Canon of the Church doth discharge shearing of corne, taking of fish, or much other husband labour upon that day. 1697 J. Donaldson (new ed.) viii. 127 The right Management of Husband Labour. 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil vii. sig. S.iijv One doughter..Now husbandripe, now wedlockable ful, of lawful yeeres. 1745 T. Martin 75 You're Husband-ripe, then cease this pother, For shame! 'tis time to leave your Mother. c1475 ( J. Hardyng (Harl.) (1812) 418 Many goode villages and husbonde townys. c1480 (a1400) St. Ninian 867 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) II. 329 Þe knycht..in til a housband ton þat nycht to slepe & ese hyme can dycht. 1557–8 Act 4 & 5 Philip & Mary c. 5 in (1963) IV. i. 325 The Villages and Husbande Townes florished, and Husbandrie and Tillage was well mainteyned. 1678 G. Mackenzie ii. 419 A Barron may cognosce upon, and punish the raisers of Fire rashly, within Husband Towns in the Barrony. 1730 W. Forbes II. i. iv. x. 160 Those, by whose Neglect Fire is raised in husband Towns, are to be punished by the Lords. 1553 T. Wilson i. f. 25v Of Trees, wherin..there is found Mariage, with some manifeste difference of bothe kyndes, that excepte the housebande Tree do leane..vpon the womenne Trees..they would elles..waxe barraine. 1611 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas (new ed.) ii. i. 229 Palms, whose lusty Femals (willing Their marrow-boyling loues to be fulfilling, And reach their Husband-trees on th' other banks) Bow their stiff backs, and serue for passing-planks. 1623 Colne Priory Rolls in A. Macfarlane et al. (1981) (modernized text) (microfiche) No. 338.010242 The tenants of both the said manors their heirs and assigns shall and may..lop and shred the sound and timber pollingers and husband trees. 1638 in (1894) 5 102 If my said sonne Henry or his assignes shall at any time duringe the said terme of his naturall life fell Cutt downe or stubb upp any of the said tymber trees Cobbings or husband trees. 1795 J. Nott tr. Catullus I. 173 As cling the tendrils of the vine, Enamour'd of its husband tree; So shall the youth thy frame entwine. 1831 J. Conder II. i. 26 In winter, the vines, disengaged from the husband-trees, are held down to the earth by stones. 1847 8 May 305/1 Mr. Rivers imported the Buffalo-berry last year; but unluckily he left the husband tree on the other side of the Atlantic. 1863 Jan. 47/1 In youth and beauty, she [sc. ivy] clings to the husband tree or parental wall for support. 1572 (a1500) (1882) 595 Ane man in husband weid. 1922 6 452 There are those who shop in pairs, for example, the mother-daughter combination or the husband-wife combination. 1956 J. M. Mogey 61 ‘My wife trusts me’ indicates excellent husband–wife adjustment. 1965 41 124 The husband–wife team of Pavle and Milka Ivić. 2008 L. H. Yearley in D. A. Bell iii. vii. 151 It is these tasks [sc. farming and weaving] that the prince and his wife, the role models for the husband-wife relationship, undertake. C3. Compounds with husbands' or husband's, in specialized senses. 1847 28 Aug. 202/3 There are three fine steamers every day..and four on Saturdays; the extra one is called the ‘Husbands' Boat’, owing to its conveying a cargo of two hundred loving spouses down to their anxious wives. 1874 29 Aug. 2/4 In consequence of a dense mist in the Menai Straits on Monday morning, the ‘husbands' boat’ for Liverpool was delayed for two hours. 1914 24 May 16/2 The popular ‘Husbands' Boat’ starts on Saturday, July 4. 2012 M. Carty 39 The ‘Husband's Boat’ on a Friday night might have sounded romantic, but it was the source of many a brief encounter. 1874 (rev. ed.) 336 Sometimes very weak tea is called ‘husband's tea’. 1877 9 132 A servant girl..calls Weak tea Husband's tea, and explains that whilst wives think such tea good enough for their husbands, they do not take it themselves. 1895 17 Aug. 6/4 Piled-up platefuls of cake and bread and butter and steaming cans of tea—not ‘husbands' tea’—were put on the tables. 1866 20 Oct. 2 Passengers by the ‘husbands'’ train from Clevedon on Thursday morning brought the intelligence that that usually quiet and unexcitable little watering-place had received some strange visitors in the shape of a couple of whales. 1886 A. Hornblow tr. J. Normand 163 A special train, the husband's train, would permit him to arrive at Tréport the same night. 2007 i. 17 The six o'clock train into Mount Tabor on Friday evening became known as the ‘Husbands' Train’, as husbands and fathers poured into the station for the weekend. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). husbandv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: husband n. Etymology: < husband n. With uses in branch I. (relating to marriage) compare earlier wive v. With use in branch II. (relating to management and cultivation) compare husbanding n. and earlier husbandry n. With use in senses 2, 5a, 5b compare husbanding n., which is attested earlier in the corresponding senses. I. To provide with a husband, marry. a1325 (2011) i. 5 No wedewe sal ben istreined for te hosebonden þe ȝwile þat he wole libbe biþoute. 1608 J. Day sig. B3 Wiue it for them, you shall not husband me. 1609 S. Rowlands sig. A2v I am husbanded with such a Clowne, 'Twould pul a merrier heart then mine is downe. 1825 T. Hood Addr. to Sylvanus Urban in 71 Parishioners,—hatched,—husbanded,—and wived. 1875 Ld. Tennyson ii. ii. 78 I am not..so amorous That I must needs be husbanded. 1926 T. Hardy 704 And the children grew up: one husbanded and one wived. 2003 M. H. Kingston (2004) 71 Liberated Taña did not want..to be a wife, a woman who had to be husbanded. 3. 1608 W. Shakespeare xxiv. 69 That were the most, if hee should husband you. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. iii. 127 You shall as easie Proue that I husbanded her bed in Florence, Where yet she neuer was. View more context for this quotation 1843 10 139 Husbanding his means, with the hope of ultimately husbanding a wife. 1880 G. Meredith II. vi. 106 He had been ready to perform the duty of husbanding a woman. a1934 J. Hawthorne (1938) vi. 281 Stowe was..not unaware of the awkwardness of husbanding a woman more important than himself. 2002 C. M. Baker ii.60 A rabbinic discourse wherein housing and husbanding a wife are practices intimately bound up with mediating her visibility and accessibility to others. 1875 H. H. Bancroft III. vi. 318 (note) Nor should I deem it wise in me to husband a doctrine on this or any other palpably unprovable proposition. II. To manage to best advantage, to tend, to cultivate. ?a1430 T. Hoccleve Balade to Virgin & Christ l. 24 in (1970) i. 68 Wolde god..I mighte him and his modir do plesance, And, to my meryt, folwe goddes lawe, And of mercy, housbonde a purueance! (Harl. 221) 254 Husbondyn, or wysely dyspendyn worldely goodys. 1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara 505 The office of the husband is, to husband the goods, and of the wife to gouerne the familie. 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 135/1 in (new ed.) II That hir majesties..revenues [be] well husbanded and looked unto. 1605 Bp. J. Hall I. §59 I will labour so to husband the stock that God hath left in my hands, that I may returne my soule better then I receiued it. 1639 T. Fuller i. vii. 10 If they had husbanded this occasion. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot i. 166 A Jar of Brandy, which we husbanded as well as we could. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter iii. ii. 309 We were obliged to husband our ammunition. 1790 W. Bligh 83 The quantity of provisions..was not more than we should have consumed in five days, had there been no necessity for husbanding our stock. a1792 J. Reynolds (1816) 13 Garrick husbanded his fame. 1818 G. Crabbe Let. 7 Sept. in (1985) ii. 237 Tho' I hope to procure a free Cover for you yet I dare not be sure & so must husband my Room. 1848 Apr. 355/1 [He] was too rich in ideas of his art, and its works, to care to husband his thoughts. a1855 C. Brontë (1857) I. iii. 36 Husbanding my monthly allowance. 1913 A. F. Irvine 82 Anna husbanded the diminishing embers. 1968 R. Gittings (1971) ii. x. 218 Incurably ill..he had the sufferer's gift of husbanding his energy. 1969 D. Acheson i. xi. 92 What small assets we had must be husbanded and made much of. 2000 Jan. 50/1 She husbanded her vocal resources intelligently. 2010 R. Wiss (2011) 260 The Taliban..have evidently been husbanding their heavier weapons for some time to be able to mount a major offensive today. 5. 1545 R. Ascham i. f. 43v A good grounde..well husbanded, bringeth out great plentie of byg eared corne. 1588 T. Hariot sig. Bv If art be added in planting of mulberry trees..for their feeding and nourishing; and some of them [sc. silkworms] carefully gathered and husbanded..there will rise..great profite. 1589 R. Payne 13 To husband this farme, your tenant must keepe viii. persons. 1652 P. Heylyn iv. i. sig. Ffff Husbanding the vallies which lie neerest to them. 1737 H. Bracken iv. 41 Till such Time as the Ground be dug up and husbanded. 1787 J. C. Lettsom tr. Abbé de Commerelle 24 If it be necessary to husband the roots, there may be mixed with them a quart or more of hay and of chapt straw. 1825 G. Wilkins (ed. 2) 232 The perfect manner in which all the lands for a considerable distance around him had been husbanded. 1876 L. Morris ii. 18 The grain scarce husbanded by toiling hands Upon the sunlit plain. 1945 A. J. Massingham viii. 156 What I did not expect was to see a farm, organically husbanded and thus faithful to the old spirit of the country. 1979 J. Raban vi. 233 He talked of how arid pastureland, when not properly husbanded, is fit..finally only for camels. 2001 J. Walton vi. 270 Native Americans..husbanded the land with controlled burns and plant regeneration. 1582 S. Harward sig. B.vii The more that we are husbanded by the worde of God, the more plentifull ought we to be in good workes. 1595 W. Phiston 5 So apply your self in husbanding this spring tyme of your Adolescencie, as when you are growen to a perfect man, you may gloriously reape the happie haruest of your labours. 1639 T. B. tr. J.-P. Camus Certain Moral Relations in S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus 197 So dexterously to husband the minde of Rogat, that he will worke him to condescend unto his desires. 1639 T. B. tr. J.-P. Camus Certain Moral Relations in S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus 271 Whether it were that he ill husbanded the mind of [him] or whether this woman changed it. 1997 L. Brace & J. Hoffman 139 It is also, significantly, a project of the imagination, a way of ‘husbanding’ the mind. Phrases1597 Bp. J. Hall iii. i. 52 Good Saturne selfe..was not so clad of yore..Husbanding it in work-day yeomanrie. 1608 J. Day sig. D2 Say we desire to husband it with you. Phrasal verbs With adverbs in specialized senses. to husband out the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > make complete [verb (transitive)] > complete, fill up, or make up > by supplying what is wanting 1762 O. Goldsmith I. 63 The Dutch frugally husband out their pleasures. 1770 O. Goldsmith 87 To husband out life's taper at the close. 1827 3 Mar. 709/2 Shall this go forth to the world, to the condemnation of those husbanding out the largest treasures that ever merited the remembrance of a charitable intention? 1940 C. Hausmann Let. in C. J. Hausmann (2008) x. 338 My letters were all getting to look like 5th or 6th carbon copies, with my husbanding out the old ribbon. 1970 1 8 Old Anders, the blind man, greatest of the modern Juvikings, has been husbanding out the last years of his life in dark old age. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.OE v.a1325 |
