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To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize.

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  1. v. t. To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize.
  2. To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize. Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well housewived. Fuller.