Chapter Hurons to Hustings of H by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

1. Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift.

There's husbandry in heaven;
Their candles are all out.

Shak.

2. The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming.

Husbandry supplieth all things necessary for food.

Spenser.

Hush
(Hush) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hushed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hushing.] [OE. huschen, hussen, prob. of imitative origin; cf. LG. hussen to lull to sleep, G. husch quick, make haste, be silent.]

1. To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.

My tongue shall hush again this storm of war.

Shak.

2. To appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe.

With thou, then,
Hush my cares?

Otway.

And hush'd my deepest grief of all.

Tennyson.

To hush up, to procure silence concerning; to suppress; to keep secret. "This matter is hushed up." Pope.

Hush
(Hush), v. i. To become or to keep still or quiet; to become silent; — esp. used in the imperative, as an exclamation; be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise.

Hush, idle words, and thoughts of ill.

Keble.

But all these strangers' presence every one did hush.

Spenser.

Hush
(Hush), n. Stillness; silence; quiet. [R.] "It is the hush of night." Byron.

Hush money, money paid to secure silence, or to prevent the disclosure of facts. Swift.

Hush
(Hush), a. Silent; quiet. "Hush as death." Shak.

Husher
(Hush"er) n. An usher. [Obs.] Spenser.

Hushing
(Hush"ing), n. (Mining) The process of washing ore, or of uncovering mineral veins, by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir; flushing; — also called booming.

Husk
(Husk) n. [Prob. for hulsk, and from the same root as hull a husk. See Hull a husk.]

1. The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize.

2. The supporting frame of a run of millstones.

Husks of the prodigal son (Bot.), the pods of the carob tree. See Carob.

Husk
(Husk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Husked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Husking.] To strip off the external covering or envelope of; as, to husk Indian corn.

Husked
(Husked) a.

1. Covered with a husk.