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A worthless, base, degenerate person or animal. [Obs.] Callander.

by native Hindoos. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written. Whitworth.

. What various hindrances we meet. Cowper. Something between a hindrance and a help. Wordsworth.

a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay. The laborer is worthy of his hire. Luke x. 7.

as, the arrow hissed as it flew. Shod with steel, We hissed along the polished ice. Wordsworth.

Low, flat land. Wordsworth. The soft wind blowing over meadowy holms. Tennyson. Holm thrush (Zoöl.), the missel thrush.

Savior is commemorated. -- Holy writ, the sacred Scriptures. " Word of holy writ." Wordsworth.

domestic; not foreign. " Home-bred mischief." Milton. Benignity and home-bred sense. Wordsworth.

In human form. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Same as Homoeomeria. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii. 57.

Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak.

That which causes horror. [R.] Miss Edgeworth.

t praising God. Luke ii. 13. All at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils. Wordsworth.

led; to be named. [Obs.] There as I was wont to hote Arcite, Now hight I Philostrate, not worth a mite. Chaucer.

collectively; the human race. But hearing oftentimes The still, and music humanity. Wordsworth. It is a debt we owe to humanity. S. S. Smith.

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. God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Jas. iv. 6. She should be humble who would please. Prior. Without a humble imitation of the divine Author o…

mble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness. Serving the Lord with all humility of mind. Acts xx. 19.

One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming. Ainsworth.

A worthless dog that runs back on the scent; a blunderer. [Obs.] Shak.