Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or practice of cultivating crops and breeding and raising livestock; agriculture.
- n. The application of scientific principles to agriculture, especially to animal breeding.
- n. Careful management or conservation of resources; economy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Management of domestic affairs; domestic economy; frugality; thrift.
- n. The business of a husbandman or farmer; farming; agriculture.
- n. The product of husbandry or of cultivated soil.
Wiktionary
- n. The raising of livestock and the cultivation of crops; agriculture
- n. The prudent management or conservation of resources
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift.
- n. The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
Etymologies
- Middle English husbondri, from huseband, husband; see husband. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“True conservation had to begin with “that combination of solicitude, foresight, and skill which we call husbandry,” practiced by landowners on their own land.”
“Many of Yunnan nomadic tribes or those engaged in husbandry, in particular, relied on agricultural products from Sichuan.”
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
“Similarly exploring this new form of animal husbandry is Dressing the Meat of Tomorrow by James King.”
“Today many ag and retail food concerns find it expedient to employ persons well versed in husbandry/ag production to vet the methods and policies of their suppliers.”
“As in husbandry the sower may cast his seed in a dry and parched soil with desponding fears, so those shall reap abundant fruit who toil in tears with the prayer of faith.”
“The neglect of husbandry is the way to poverty: Where no oxen are, to till the ground and tread out the corn, the crib is empty, is clean; there is no straw for the cattle, and consequently no bread for the service of man.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“Job, it is probable, kept many, though they are not mentioned among his possessions, cattle for use in husbandry being there valued more than those for state and war, which alone horses were then reserved for, and they were not then put to such mean services as with us they are commonly put to.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“husbandry," is not so probable. men of the east -- denoting in Scripture those living east of Palestine; as the people of North Arabia-Deserta (Jud 6: 3; Eze 25: 4).”
“There is very little that could be called husbandry in the care and treatment that most food animals receive today.”
“Of course, these paintings served the dual purpose of depicting the techniques and implements used by the Chinese, who were famous for their efficiency in husbandry.”
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Interesting words
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
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utopia
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Husbands
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Stalking Darkness
Words and phrases from Lynn Flewelling's book, Stalking Darkness.
inquest, halyard, catamount, occlude, founder, more, grouse, grapple, water butt, antepenultimate, palimpsest, hob and 196 more...
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vmarinelli's Words
canard, gumption, inexorable, insouciance, inviolable, mordant, euphonious, sawbuck, carpe diem, pay dirt, adipocere, profligate and 496 more...
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bespoke, freshet, coquette, lath, victrola, feckless, viridian, lariat, sargasso, sobriquet, grift, sophistry and 134 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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useful vocab
pysmatic, relentless, storge, preamble, oscillate, itinerary, frolic, frolicsome, abdicate, frolicking, divergent, abnegate and 312 more...
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patronage, expletive, exhort, exegesis, execrable, excommunicate, evince, escarpment, ersatz, ergo, epoxy, snare and 1202 more...
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SAT WORDS TEST 10
SAT CB Practice Exam 10
modicum, jocular, feigned, exonerated, distension, altruism, exemplars, obsequious, lackadaisical, husbandry, plaudits
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simple & useful8
sullied, mincing, portentous, barbarism, gesticulate, multiplicative, legerdemain, shibboleth, rekindling, ragamuffins, glacially, frothily and 63 more...
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set 2
waffle, alluvial, premonition, esoteric, pert, seine, fetid, pejorative, hubris, construe, lode, consort and 52 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for husbandry.
kingparton Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it is pursued with irreverent haste and heedlessness by us, our object being to have large farms and large crops merely.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden Aug 25, 2011
bilby A pig parlour? Jan 22, 2010
cutlery "Husbandry was not practiced, for no mammals walked these isles until passing whalers willfully marooned pigs here to propagate a parlor" (Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, 011.3). Jan 22, 2010
slumry agriculture; farming Jul 22, 2007