- (superl.) Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
- (v.t.) To bring low; to reduce the power, independence or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
- (superl.) Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest.
- (a.) Hornless. See Hummel.
- (v.t.) To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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