Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

Humble \Hum"ble\, a. [Compar. {Humbler}; superl. {Humblest}.]
   [F., fr. L. humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth,
   ground. See {Homage}, and cf. {Chameleon}, {Humiliate}.]
   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.

Source : WordNet®

humble
     adj 1: low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage";
            "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people";
            "small beginnings" [syn: {low}, {lowly}, {modest}, {small}]
     2: marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful; "a
        humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing,
        he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"-
        B.K.Malinowski [ant: {proud}]
     3: used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) [syn: {menial},
         {lowly}]
     4: of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense);
        "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or
        lowly) birth" [syn: {base}, {baseborn}, {lowly}]

humble
     v 1: cause to be unpretentious; "This experience will humble him"
     2: cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his
        colleague by criticising him in front of the boss" [syn: {humiliate},
         {mortify}, {chagrin}, {abase}]