[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

humble \hum"ble\ hu^m"b'l; 277, a. compar. humbler
   hu^m"bl~er; superl. humblest hu^m"ble^st. 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.
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            thy humble nest built on the ground.  --cowley.
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   2. not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming;
      modest; as, a humble cottage. used to describe objects.
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   3. 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; weak; modest. used to describe people.
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            god resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the
            humble.                               --jas. iv. 6.
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            she should be humble who would please. --prior.
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            without a humble imitation of the divine author of
            our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy
            nation.                               --washington.
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   humble plant bot., a species of sensitive plant, of the
      genus mimosa mimosa sensitiva.

   to eat humble pie, to endure mortification; to submit or
      apologize abjectly; to yield passively to insult or
      humiliation; -- 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.
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see also:
humbler humblest homage chameleon humiliate humble plant 
mimosa mimosa sensitiva to eat humble pie humbles 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

eat \eat\ =et, v. t. imp. ate =at; 277, obsolescent 
   colloq. eat e^t; p. p. eaten =et"'n, obs. or
   colloq. eat e^t; p. pr.  vb. n. eating. oe. eten,
   as. etan; akin to os. etan, ofries. eta, d. eten, ohg. ezzan,
   g. essen, icel. eta, sw. aumta, dan. aede, goth. itan,
   ir.  gael. ith, w. ysu, l. edere, gr. 'e`dein, skr. ad.
   root6. cf. etch, fret to rub, edible.
   1. to chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially
      of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. "to eat grass as
      oxen." --dan. iv. 25.
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            they . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. --ps.
                                                  cvi. 28.
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            the lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine.
                                                  --gen. xli.
                                                  20.
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            the lion had not eaten the carcass.   --1 kings
                                                  xiii. 28.
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            with stories told of many a feat,
            how fairy mab the junkets eat.        --milton.
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            the island princes overbold
            have eat our substance.               --tennyson.
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            his wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
                                                  --thackeray.
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   2. to corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a
      cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to
      cause to disappear.
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   to eat humble pie. see under humble.

   to eat of partitive use. "eat of the bread that can not
      waste." --keble.

   to eat one's words, to retract what one has said. see the
      citation under blurt.

   to eat out, to consume completely. "eat out the heart and
      comfort of it." --tillotson.

   to eat the wind out of a vessel naut., to gain slowly to
      windward of her.

   syn: to consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.
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see also:
ate eat eaten eating etch fret 
edible to eat humble pie humble to eat of to eat one's words 
blurt to eat out to eat the wind out of a vessel 

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