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.