With these humilities they satisfied the young king.
Sir J. Davies.
Syn. -- Lowliness; humbleness; meekness; modesty; diffidence. --
Humility, Modesty, Diffidence. Diffidence is a distrust of our powers,
combined with a fear lest our failure should be censured, since a dread
of failure unconnected with a dread of censure is not usually called
diffidence. It may be carried too far, and is not always, like modesty
and humility, a virtue. Modesty, without supposing self-distrust,
implies an unwillingness to put ourselves forward, and an absence of
all over-confidence in our own powers. Humility consists in rating our
claims low, in being willing to waive our rights, and take a lower
place than might be our due. It does not require of us to underrate
ourselves.
Hu"min (?), n. [L. humus the earth, ground.] (Chem.) A bitter, brownish
yellow, amorphous substance, extracted from vegetable mold, and also
produced by the action of acids on certain sugars and carbohydrates; --
called also humic acid, ulmin, gein, ulmic or geic acid, etc.
||Hu*mi"ri (?), n. [From native name.] (Bot.) A fragrant balsam
||obtained from Brazilian trees of the genus Humirium.
Hum"ite (?), n. [Named after Sir A. Hume.] (Min.) A mineral of a
transparent vitreous brown color, found in the ejected masses of
Vesuvius. It is a silicate of iron and magnesia, containing fluorine.
Hum"mel (?), v. t. [Cf. Hamble.] To separate from the awns; -- said of
barley. [Scot.]
Hum"mel, a. Having no awns or no horns; as, hummelcorn; a hummel cow.
[Scot.]
Hum"mel*er (?), n. [Written also hummeller.] One who, or a machine
which, hummels.
Hum"mer (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by
humming. Ainsworth.