Husband

a. To manage with frugality; to use economy. Husbandage, n. The agent or managing owner's allowance or commi ion for attending to a ship's bus i ne . Husbandle , adv . Without a husband. Husbandly, a . Frugal; thrifty. (R.) Husbandman, n. A cultivator or tiller of the ground; one who labors in tillage. Husbandry, n. A term, including both agriculture and gardening, or all those country occupations which the father of a family was expected to perform in the country. The term is now commonly used as synony- mous with agriculture . The term convertible husbandry is applied to that system of cropping in which the land is alternately kept under gra and tillage. Husbandry, Patrons of. See FARMERS' ALLIANCE. Hush, a. [Ger. husch; Dan. hys, hyst ; closely allied to, if not identical with, hist , and whist .] Silent; still; quiet. -v. a. To still: to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repre , as noise; to appease; to allay. r. n. To be still; to be silent. Hush, interj . [Imperative of the verb hush .] Be silent or quiet; make no noise; silence! Hush'aby, a . That tends to quiet or lull. Hush'er, n . An usher. (o.) - A bully. (Local U.S.) Hush'-money, n. A bribe to secure silence; money paid to hinder information, or disclosure of facts. Husk, n. [It. guscio , shell of nuts, .; Ger. hülse; Du. hulze , husk, cod.] The shell or external covering of certain fruits or seeds of plants; the rind; the bark; - especially the ars of maize. -v. a. To strip off, as the external covering of the fruits or seeds of plants. Husked, ( huskt .) p . a . Stripped of its husks. -. Covered with a husk. Husk'ily, adv . In a husky manner; dryly; roughly. Husk'ine , n . State of being dry and rough, like a husk. Roughne of sound, or of the voice. Husk'ing, n. The act of stripping off husks of fruits and seeds. An a emblage of neighbors for the pur- pose of husking Indian corn. [Local U. S.] nounced at the Court of Rome, and on his failing to answer the charges made against him, was excommuni cated by Alexander V. Tumults occurring in Prague, between the followers of H. and the Roman party, H. retired for a time to his native village. When Pope John XXIII. proclaimed a crusade against Ladislaus, king of Naples, H. boldly condemned the pope; was again cited to Rome, and at last, in 1414, to the Council of Con stance. Thither, trusting to the safe-conduct given by the Emperor Sigismund, he went. Unshaken by entreaties or by terrors, he was arrested, degraded from the priesthood, delivered over to the secular arm, and burnt at Con stance, July 7, 1415. His disciple, Jerome of Prague, met a like end in the following year. See HUSSITES. Hu ar, ( hūz - zār '.) n. [Hung. húsz, 20, and ár, rate.] ( Mil .) One of a body of light cavalry, first in use among the Magyars in 1610, and so called because the twentieth man of all the va als of the nobles in each province was compelled to be armed as a trooper. Tilly introduced hu ars into the Austrian army; and at the battle of Leipsic, in 1631, had five regiments of them in the field. Luxemburg formed a troop in France in 1692; and Frederick William I. of Pru ia organized two regiments in Pru ia, 1730. The first hu ars forming part of the English army were enrolled by William III. during the war in Flanders in 1694. There are regiments of hu ars in almost all the European armies. Their arms are a sabre, a carbine, and pistols. Hus's im Pacha, the last Dey of Algiers, B. 1773, proclaimed 1818, dethroned by the French under Marshal Bourmont, 1830.