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

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.

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.

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.).

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

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