Chapter Huke to Humbug of H by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

1. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

THy humble nest built on the ground.

Cowley.

2. 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.

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 of our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy nation.

Washington.

Humble plant (Bot.), a species of sensitive plant, of the genus Mimosa (M. sensitiva). — To eat humble pie, to endure mortification; to submit or apologize abjectly; to yield passively to insult or humilitation; — a phrase derived from a pie made of the entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. See Humbles. Halliwell. Thackeray.

Humble
(Hum"ble) a. Hornless. See Hummel. [Scot.]

Humble
(Hum"ble) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humbled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Humbling ]

1. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.

Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues
Have humbled to all strokes.

Shak.

The genius which humbled six marshals of France.

Macaulay.

2. 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.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you.

1 Pet. v. 6.

Syn. — To abase; lower; depress; humiliate; mortify; disgrace; degrade.

Humblebee
(Hum"ble*bee`) n. [OE. humbilbee, hombulbe; cf. D. hommel, G. hummel, OHG. humbal, Dan. humle, Sw. humla; perh. akin to hum. &radic15. Cf. Bumblebee.] (Zoöl.) The bumblebee. Shak.

Humblehead
(Hum"ble*head`) n. [Humble + -head.] Humble condition or estate; humility. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Humbleness
(Hum"ble*ness), n. The quality of being humble; humility; meekness.

Humbler
(Hum"bler) n. One who, or that which, humbles some one.

Humbles
(Hum"bles) n. pl. [See Nombles.] Entrails of a deer. [Written also umbles.] Johnson.

Humblesse
(Hum"blesse) n. [OF.] Humbleness; abasement; low obeisance. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

Humbly
(Hum"bly), adv. With humility; lowly. Pope.

Humbug
(Hum"bug`) n. [Prob. fr. hum to impose on, deceive + bug a frightful object.]

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