Syn. -- To abase; lower; depress; humiliate; mortify; disgrace;
degrade.
Hum"ble*bee` (?), n. [OE. humbilbee, hombulbe; cf. D. hommel, G.
hummel, OHG. humbal, Dan. humle, Sw. humla; perh. akin to hum.
√15. Cf. Bumblebee.] (Zoˆl.) The bumblebee. Shak.
Hum"ble*head` (?), n. [Humble + -head.] Humble condition or estate;
humility. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hum"ble*ness, n. The quality of being humble; humility; meekness.
Hum"bler (?), n. One who, or that which, humbles some one.
Hum"bles (?), n. pl. [See Nombles.] Entrails of a deer. [Written also
umbles.] Johnson.
Hum"blesse (?), n. [OF.] Humbleness; abasement; low obeisance. [Obs.]
Chaucer. Spenser.
Hum"bly, adv. With humility; lowly. Pope.
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.