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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.

Without a thumb. Darwin.

lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade. Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased. Luke xiv. ll.

Lowered; humbled.

The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.

To make low or humble. [Obs.] Spenser. Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth. Jer. Taylor.

s; roomy; widely extended. All the people in that ample house Did to that image bow their humble knees. Spenser.

An embrace. [Obs.] An humble amplexation of those sacred feet. Bp. Hall.

of ashes, and the cheek of flame. Byron. In dust and ashes, In sackcloth and ashes, with humble expression of grief or repentance; -- from the method of mourning in Eastern lands. -- Volcanic ashes, or Volcanic ash, the loose, earthy matter, or small fragments of stone or lava, ejected by volcanoes.…

Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean. [Archaic] "A pleasant and base swain." Bacon.

nsecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy. O, run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton.

A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth. [Scot.]

, expose her to danger of upsetting. -- To bring down. (a) To cause to come down. (b) To humble or abase; as, to bring down high looks. -- To bring down the house, to cause tremendous applause. [Colloq.] -- To bring forth. (a) To produce, as young fruit. (b) To bring to light; to make manifest. -- To bring forward (…

Subdued; humbled; contrite. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. Ps. li. 17.