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Webster 1913 Edition


Husbandry

Hus′band-ry

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Noun.
1.
Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift.
There’s
husbandry
in heaven;
Their candles are all out.
Shakespeare
2.
The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming.
Husbandry
supplieth all things necessary for food.
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Husbandry

HUS'BANDRY

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Noun.
The business of a farmer, comprehending agriculture or tillage of the ground, the raising, managing and fattening of cattle and other domestic animals, the management of the dairy and whatever the land produces.
1.
Frugality; domestic economy; good management; thrift. But in this sense we generally prefix good; as good husbandry.
2.
Care of domestic affairs.

Definition 2024


husbandry

husbandry

English

Noun

husbandry (countable and uncountable, plural husbandries)

  1. The raising of livestock and the cultivation of crops; agriculture.
    • 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)
      On a sunny March day Ogada is traveling with her colleague Munir Virani in the Masai Mara region of Kenya. Virani is here not to study his beloved birds but to speak with herdsmen about their cows. Livestock husbandry, it turns out, is essential to vulture welfare.
  2. The prudent management or conservation of resources.

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