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The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.

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  1. n. The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.
  2. n. A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.
  3. n. One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist.
  4. n. A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.
  5. n. The male of a pair of animals.
  6. v. t. To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.
  7. v. t. To cultivate, as land; to till.
  8. v. t. To furnish with a husband.
  9. n. a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
  10. v. use cautiously and frugally
  11. v:1/n:99 n. a married man; a woman's partner in marriage