near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.-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.-hornless. see hummel.-to bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.-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.