Hus·band n.
 1. The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family. [Obs.]
 2. A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman. [Obs.]
    The painful husband, plowing up his ground.   --Hakewill.
    He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestic and field accommodations.   --Evelyn.
 3. One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist. [R.]
    God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant left me.   --Fuller.
 4. A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.
    The husband and wife are one person in law.   --Blackstone.
 5. The male of a pair of animals. [R.]
 A ship's husband Naut., an agent representing the owners of a ship, who manages its expenses and receipts.