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peft of our affairs, humanly fpeaking, may feem to promife. 
Atterbury. —Kindly ; with good-nature. This is now 
written humanely: 
Though leam’d, well bred ; and though well bred, fincere; 
Modedly bold, and humanly I'evere. Pope. 
HU'MANNESS, f. Humanity. 
HUMAR', a fmall ifland of Arabia, in the Red Sea: 
one league north-welt of Loheia. 
HU'MAS, an American Indian village, on the eafl fide 
of Miffiflippi river in Louifiana, fixty miles above New Or¬ 
leans. The Humas were formerly a conliderable nation, 
but about the year 1770 were reduced to only twenty-live 
warriors. The Alabamas, whofe villages are near thofe of 
the Humas, had, at the above period, about thirty war¬ 
riors, and followed the French here when they abandoned 
the poft on Alabama river in 1762. The Chetimachas 
have about twenty-feven warriors. 
KUM'BER, [humbpe, Sax. fb called from its hum¬ 
ming, becaufe its waters make a great humming at the 
flowing and ebbing of the tide, Somner-, or of hamm and 
aber, which in the C. Br. fignifies the mouth of a river, 
Lcland.] A river of England, formed by the Trent, Oufe, 
Derwent, and feveral other dreams. By the late inland 
navigation, it has a communication with the rivers Mer- 
fey, Dee, Ribble, Severn, Thames, Avon, See. which na¬ 
vigation, including its windings, extends above five hun¬ 
dred miles, in the counties of Lincoln, Nottingham, York, 
Lancader, Weflmoreland, Chefler, Stafibrd, Warwick, 
Leiceder, Oxford, Worcelter. It divides Yorkfliire from 
Lincolnlhire, and falls into the German ocean near Hol- 
dernefs. See Canal Navigation, vol. iii. 
HUM'BER, a river of Newfoundland, which empties 
into the gulf of St. Lawrence through the Bay of Iflands. 
FIUM'BERT, an eminent cardinal of the Roman church 
in the eleventh century, born in Lorrain, and embraced 
the monadic life at the abbey of Moyenmoutier, in the 
diocefe of Toul, in.1015. Here he acquired fuch reputa¬ 
tion for talents a’nd learning, that pope Leo IX. fent for 
him into Italy, where he promoted him to the bilhopric 
of the White Forelt. About the year 1049 the fame pope 
raifed him to the purple, and fent him his legate to Con- 
dantinople in 1054. He died about the year 1064. He 
far furpaded all the Latins both in the vehemence and 
learning which appeared in his controverfial writings 
againdthe Greeks. They confid of, 1. Liber adverfus Ca¬ 
lumnies Michaelis Ccrularii, & Leonis Achriaani dc Azymo, & 
Jejunio Sabbatorum. 2. Refutatio TraElatus edili contra Lati¬ 
nos a Niceta PeBorato. 3. Commemoratio corum, qua contra 
Michaelem Cerulanuni gejferunt Apocriftarii Apojlolica Sedis 
Anno 1054. 4. Epijlola ad omnes Ecclefue Catholic <e Filios. 
The above are inferted in the fixth volume of Canifius An¬ 
tique LeBiones ; and alfo in the eighteenth volume of the 
Bird. Patr. 
HUM'BIRD, f. The humming bird.—We call the wren 
the lead of birds, yet our own plantations have fhowed 
one far lefs; that is, the humbird, not much exceeding a 
beetle. Brown. —See the article Trochilus. 
FIUM'BLE, adj.- [ humble , Fr. from humilis, Lat.] Not 
proud; moded; not arrogant.—We ihould be as humble 
in our imperfections and fins, as Chrid was in the full- 
nefs of the fpirit, great wifdom, and perfect life. Taylor. 
Ten thoufand trifles light as thefe, 
Nor can my rage nor anger move : 
She’Ihould be humble who would pleafe; 
And Ihe mud fuffer, who can love. Prior. 
Low ; not high ; not great: 
Ah ! prince, had’d thou but known the joys which dwell 
With humbler fortunes, thou wouldd curfe thy royalty ! Rowe. 
To HUM'BLE, v. a. To make humble; to make fub- 
miflive; to make to bow down with humility. —Humble 
yourfelves under the mighty hand of God, that he may 
exalt you. 1 Pet. v. 6.—Hezekiah humbled himfelf-for the 
pride of his heart. 2 Chron.—'To crulh; to break; to lub- 
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due; to mortify.—-Men that make a kind of infult upon 
fociety, ought to be humbled as difiurbers of the public 
tranquillity. Freeholder. 
Fortune not much of humbling me can boad; 
Though double tax’d, how little have I lod! Pope. 
To make to condefcend.—This would not be to conde¬ 
scend to their capacities, when he humbles himfelf to 
fpeak to them, but .to lole his defign in fpeaking. Locke .— 
To bring down from an height.—In procefs of time the 
highed mountains may be humbled into valleys ; and again, 
the lowed valleys exalted into mountainsi Hakewill. 
HUM BLE-BEE, f. A buzzing wild bee. See Bom- 
bvlius, vol. iii. p. 165. 
HUM'BLE-MOUTFIED, adj. Mild; meek: 
You're meek and humble-mouthed-, but your heart 
Is cramm’d with arrogancy, fpleen, and pride. Shake/peare, 
HUM'BLE PLANT, /. in botany. See Mimosa. 
HUM'BLENESS, f. Humility; abfence of pride: 
A grain of glory, mixed with humblenefs. 
Cures both a fever and lethargicnefs. Herbert. 
HUM'BLER, f. One that humbles or fubdues himfelf 
or others. 
HUM'BLES, f. Entrails of a deer. See Umeles. 
HUM'BLESS, f. Humblenefs; humility. Obfolete. 
And with meek humble/s, and afflifted mood. 
Pardon for thee, and grace for me, intreat. Spenfer. 
PIUM'BLING, f. The aft of making humble, or of 
mortifying ; an aft of fubmiflion. 
HUM'BLY, adv. Without pride ; with humility ; mo- 
dedly ; with timorous modefiy : 
In midff of dangers, fears, and death. 
Thy goodnefs I’ll adore, 
And praife thee for thy mercies pad, 
And humbly hope for more. Addifon. 
Without height; without elevation. 
HUM'DRUM, adj. [from hum drone, or humming drone.] 
Dull ; dronifli ; ltupid : 
Shall we, quoth flie, dand dill, humdrum, 
And fee flout Bruin all alone, 
By numbers bafely overthrown T Hudibras. 
HUMBOLD'TIA, f. [from Humbold, a learned che- 
mifl.] In.botany,. a genus of the clafs pentandria, order 
monogynia. Generic eftential characters—Calyx four- 
parted ; petals five; legume oblong, comprefled. 
Humboldtia laurifolia, a Angle fpecies. It is a tree with 
jointed flexuous branches ; leaves pinnate ; Aipules dou¬ 
ble ; racemes axillary, folitary, or in pairs, many-flower¬ 
ed. Inhabits Ceylon. 
HUME (David,) a much-celebrated hidorian and philo- 
fopher, born at Edinburgh in 1711. lie was the younged 
fon of a gentleman of good family, but not opulent; and, 
lofing his father in his infancy, was brought up under the 
care of his mother. Fie early difplayed a great love for 
literature, which became his predominant paliion; but he 
could not confine himfelf to the purfuits of any particular 
profeffion, and fpent his time in the ltudies of philofophy 
and general learning. As his flender patrimony did not 
permit him to follow his inclinations with freedom at 
home, he went to France with the intention of profecut- 
ing his literary purfuits in an unknown retreat, reloivinp- 
to fupply by economy his pecuniary deficiencies. He re- 
fided firft at Rheims, but chiefly at La Fieche in Anjou, 
and paffed three years very agreeably in that kingdom. 
In 1737 he came to London, and in the end of the fol¬ 
lowing year publifhed his Treatife on Human Nature,, 
which he had compofed during his refidence in France. 
Immediately afterwards, he went to Scotland to his mo¬ 
ther and elder brother, who was refining upon and im¬ 
proving his paternal edate. His literary fame, however,, 
received a I'evere mortification from the negleft attending 
