n. The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family.n. A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman.n. One who manages or directs with prudence and economy; a frugal person; an economist.n. A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife.n. The male of a pair of animals.v. To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.v. To cultivate, as land; to till.v. To furnish with a husband.