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noun

• (Baltimore) An arrest based on weak evidence intended to demean or punish the subject.

verb

• To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of

• To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.

adjective

• Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.

  Example: He lives in a humble one-bedroom cottage.

• Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.

• Near the ground.

noun

• A stag that has failed to grow antlers; a cow that has not developed horns.

• Especially in hummel corn: grain that lacks awns (beards or bristles), or has had its awns removed (barley, oats, etc.).

verb

• Of an animal: to remove the horns; to poll.

• To separate (barley, oats, etc.) from the awns.