husband

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A man joined to another person in marriage; a male spouse.
• noun Chiefly British A manager or steward, as of a household.
• noun Archaic A prudent, thrifty manager.
• transitive verb To use sparingly or economically; conserve.
• transitive verb Archaic To become a husband to.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economize: as, to husband one's resources.
• To till, as land; cultivate; farm.
• To provide with a husband.
• To engage or act as a husband to; figuratively, to assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
• noun The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
• noun A man joined in marriage to a woman, who bears the correlative title of wife.
• noun A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
• noun A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings or interests; a steward; an economist.
• noun A polled tree; a pollard: so called in humorous allusion to the traditional bald head of husbands with energetic wives.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.
• noun obsolete A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.
• noun rare One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist.
• noun A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.
• noun rare The male of a pair of animals.
• noun (Naut.) an agent representing the owners of a ship, who manages its expenses and receipts.
• transitive verb To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.
• transitive verb rare To cultivate, as land; to till.
• transitive verb rare To furnish with a husband.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
• verb transitive To conserve.
• verb transitive, obsolete To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.
• verb transitive To provide with a husband.
• verb transitive To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
• noun obsolete The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
• noun obsolete A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
• noun archaic A prudent or frugal manager.
• noun A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
• noun UK A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
• noun Large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
• noun A polled tree; a pollard.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
• verb use cautiously and frugally