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Interment; inhumation. [R.]

Humming bird.

round; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. THy humble nest built on the ground. Cowley.

The bumblebee. Shak.

Humble condition or estate; humility. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The quality of being humble; humility; meekness.

One who, or that which, humbles some one.

Entrails of a deer. [Written also umbles.] Johnson.

Humbleness; abasement; low obeisance. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

With humility; lowly. Pope.

An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.

One who humbugs.

The practice of imposition.

Monotonous; dull; commonplace. "A humdrum crone." Bryant.

To moisten; to wet. [Obs.] Howell.

Diluent. -- n.

A moistening. [Obs.] Bacon.

Tending to moisten. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the humerus, or upper part of the arm; brachial. Humeral veil (R. C. Ch.), a long, narrow veil or scarf of the same material as the vestments, worn round the shoulders by the officiating priest or his attendant at Mass, and used to protect the sacred vessels from contact with the hands.…

The part of the limb containing the humerus; the brachium.