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. Etym: [OE. humbilbee, hombulbe; cf. D. hommel, G. hummel, OHG. humbal, Dan. humle, Sw. humla; perh. akin to hum. sq. root15. Cf. Bumblebee.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: The bumblebee. Shak.
HUMBLEHEAD
Hum"ble*head`, n. Etym: [Humble + -head.]
Defn: Humble condition or estate; humility. [Obs.] Chaucer.
HUMBLENESS
Hum"ble*ness, n.
Defn: The quality of being humble; humility; meekness.