let down, set down. 
     V. be humble &c. adj.; deign, vouchsafe, condescend; humble oneself,
demean oneself; stoop, stoop to conquer; carry coals; submit &c. 725; submit with a good grace &c. (brook) 826; yield the palm.
     lower one’s tone, lower one’s note; sing small, draw in one’s horns,
sober down; hide one’s face, hide one’s diminished head; not dare to show one’s face, take shame to oneself, not have a word to say for oneself; feel shame, be conscious of shame, feel disgrace, be conscious of disgrace; drink the cup of humiliation to the dregs.
     blush for, blush up to the eves; redden, change color; color up; hang
one’s head, look foolish, feel small.
     render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, tread
down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade &c. 874; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse, ashame[obs3], mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one’s ear.
     get a setdown[obs3]. 
     Adj. humble, lowly, meek; modest &c. 881; humble minded, sober-
minded; unoffended[obs3]; submissive &c. 725; servile, &c. 886.
     condescending; affable &c. (courteous) 891.
     humbled &c. v.; bowed down, resigned; abashed, ashamed, dashed; out of
countenance; down in the mouth; down on one’s knees, down on one’s marrowbones, down on one’s uppers; humbled in the dust, browbeaten; chapfallen[obs3], crestfallen; dumfoundered[obs3]. flabbergasted.
     shorn of one’s glory &c. (disrepute) 874. 
     Adv. with downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee; on all
fours, on one’s feet.
     under correction, with due deference. 
     Phr.  I am your obedient servant, I am your very humble servant; my
service to you; da locum melioribus [Lat][Terence]; parvum parva decent [Lat][Horace].

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     #880.  Vanity. —­ N. vanity; conceit, conceitedness; self-conceit,
self-complacency, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-esteem, self-love, self-approbation, self-praise, self-glorification, self-laudation, self-gratulation[obs3], self-applause, self-admiration; amour propre[Fr]; selfishness &c. 943.
     airs, affected manner, pretensions, mannerism; egotism;
priggism[obs3], priggishness; coxcombry, gaudery[obs3], vainglory, elation; pride &c. 878; ostentation &c. 882; assurance &c. 885.
     vox et praeterea nihil[Lat]; cheval de bataille[Fr]. coxcomb &c. 854
Sir Oracle &c. 887. 
     V. be vain &c. adj., be vain of; pique oneself &c. (pride) 878; lay
the flattering unction to one’s soul.
     have too high an opinion of oneself, have an overweening opinion of
oneself, have too high an opinion of one’s talents; blind oneself as to one’s own merit; not think small beer of oneself, not think vin ordinaire of