THy humble nest built on the ground. Cowley.

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.

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.

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.