Husbandry
['hʌzbəndrɪ] or ['hʌzbəndri]
Definition
(n.) Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift.
(n.) The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming.
Typed by Lesley
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Agriculture, farming, tillage, geoponics, cultivation of the soil.[2]. Frugality, thrift, domestic economy, management of domestic affairs.
Typist: Wesley
Examples
- Then, havi ng inherited land in Berwickshire, he studied husbandry in Norfolk and took interest in the surface of the land and water-courses; later he pursued these studies in Flanders. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The proprietor furnished them with the seed, cattle, and instruments of husbandry, the whole stock, in short, necessary for cultivating the farm. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Husbandry and American Improvements. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- No apprenticeship has ever been thought necessary to qualify for husbandry, the great trade of the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- His chief reliance was on education and improved methods of husbandry, but he resembled Horace Greeley in h is hospitality to any project for the public welfare. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Now, are not the best husbandmen those who are most devoted to husbandry? Plato. The Republic.
- The seed, the cattle, and the instruments of husbandry, were all his. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A shepherd has a great deal of leisure; a husbandman, in the rude state of husbandry, has some; an artificer or manufacturer has none at all. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- T hus it is with the arts of husbandry, weaving, painting, and the like, where skill is considered absol utely vain, unless it results in some useful product. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The same number of labourers in husbandry will, in different years, produce very different quantities of corn, wine, oil, hops, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Like husbandry for the acquisition of corn? Plato. The Republic.
- In 1646 he writes his tutor inquiring about books on methods of husbandry and referring to the new philosop hical college, which valued no knowledge but as it had a tendency to use. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Typist: Psyche