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/hˈəzbəndri/ Listen

noun

Husbandry n.

Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift. "There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out."

The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming. "Husbandry supplieth all things necessary for food."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Husbandry" Quotes from Famous Books

... tempest—yes, you know or feel something about this. But to enable the good ship to pursue her way, she must be 'provided.' She must not only have wherewithal to feed crew and passengers, but every special notion which can be conceived of in the ship's 'husbandry.' From out a ship chandler's establishment comes everything, directly or indirectly, which ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... hall most illustrative of its owner's pursuits. You see the desire of improving, of creating, and of associating the improvement and the creation with ourselves, follows us banished men even to our seclusion. I think of having those walls painted with the implements of husbandry, and through pictures of spades and ploughshares to express my employments and testify ...

— Devereux, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... ordained & assented, That he or she which used to labour at the Plough and Cart, or other Labour or Service of Husbandry till they be of the Age of Twelve Years, that from thenceforth they shall abide at the same Labour, without being put to any Mystery or Handicraft; and if any Covenant or Bond of Apprentie (so) be from henceforth made to the Contrary, the same ...

— Early English Meals and Manners • Various

... father was a farmer and taught me the art of husbandry. When about fourteen years of age I began to reflect upon the importance of being prepared for a future state, and upon enquiring [of] the plan of salvation I found that there was a great clash in religious sentiment; if I went to one society ...

— The Wentworth Letter • Joseph Smith

... be made of all Arts and Sciences, some one day some another, as in Physics, Chyrurgery, Astrology, Astronomy, Navigation, Husbandry, and such like. And in these speeches may be unfolded the nature of all herbs and plants, from the Hysop to the Cedar, as Solomon writ of. Likewise men may come to see into the nature of the fixed and wandering ...

— The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth • Lewis H. Berens

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