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Hooker.

Hu*mil"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Humilities (#). [OE. humilite, OF. humilitÈ, humelitÈ, F. humilitÈ, fr. L. humiliatis. See Humble.] 1. The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness.

Serving the Lord with all humility of mind.

Acts xx. 19.

2. An act of submission or courtesy.

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.

2. (Zoˆl.) A humming bird.

Hum"ming (?), a. Emitting a murmuring sound; droning; murmuring; buzzing.

Hum"ming, n. A sound like that made by bees; a low, murmuring sound; a hum.

Hummingale, lively or strong ale. Dryden. -- Humming bird (Zoˆl.), any bird of the family TrochilidÊ, of which over one hundred genera are known, including about four hundred species. They are found only in America and are most abundant in the tropics. They are mostly of very small size, and are noted for their very brilliant colors and peculiar habit of hovering about flowers while vibrating their wings very rapidly with a humming noise. They feed both upon the nectar of flowers and upon small insects. The common humming bird or ruby-throat of the Eastern United States is Trochilus colubris. Several other species are found in the Western United States. See Calliope, and Ruby-throat. -- Humming-bird moth (Zoˆl.), a hawk moth. See Hawk moth, under Hawk, the bird.

Hum"mock (?), n. [Prob. a dim. of hump. See Hump.] 1. A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface.

2. A ridge or pile of ice on an ice field.

3. Timbered land. See Hammock. [Southern U.S.]

Hum"mock*ing, n. The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice. Kane.

Hum"mock*y (?), a. Abounding in hummocks.

Hum"mum (?), n. [Per. or Ar. hammn.] A sweating bath or place for sweating. Sir T. Herbert.

Hu"mor (?), n. [OE. humour, OF. humor, umor, F. humeur, L. humor, umor, moisture, fluid, fr. humere, umere, to be moist. See Humid.] [Written also humour.] 1. Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.

The ancient physicians believed that there were four humors (the blood, phlegm, yellow bile or choler, and black bile or melancholy), on the relative proportion of which the temperament and health depended.

2. (Med.) A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. "A body full of humors." Sir W. Temple.