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w, prolonged sound, like that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums. P. Fletcher. Still humming on, their drowsy course they keep. Pope.

he qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices. To err is human; to forgive, divine. Pope.

Indued with humanity. [Obs.] Cranmer.

Pertaining to man; human. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

The study of human nature. [R.] T. W. Collins.

To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate. [R.] The humanifying of the divine Word. H. B. Wilson.

Human nature or disposition; humanity. [She] looked almost like a being who had rejected with indifference the attitude of sex for the loftier quality of abstract humanism. T. Hardy.

presented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title. Schaff- Herzog.

Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion. Caird.

Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature.

The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.

A humanist. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings.

The act of humanizing. M. Arnold.

To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion Addison.

One who renders humane.

Mankind. Pope.

In a human manner; after the manner of men; according to the knowledge or wisdom of men; as, the present prospects, humanly speaking, promise a happy issue. Sir W. Raleigh.

The quality or state of being human.

A salt of humic acid.