Low rank or status; humble, poor, or lowly state. Formerly also: †degradation, abasement (obsolete). Cf. highness, n. 2a.

Low estate; disgrace, ignominy.

Poverty; low social status or position. Esp. in of nought: out of poverty or insignificance. Obsolete.

Meanness or baseness of character; ignobility. Also: lowness of birth, lack of nobility.

Want of nobility; ignoble or low rank.

two and one (i.e. a throw that turns up deuce with one die and ace with the other); hence, a poor throw, bad luck, mean estate, the lower class…

Lack of noble birth; low rank or status; humbleness, lowliness. Now rare.

With the. The ordinary domestic or farmyard dunghill used metonymically as an emblem of low social status or rank, poverty, or deprivation. Obsolete.

Meanness or lowliness of condition. Obsolete.

Low birth or rank, membership of a lower social class; lowly or mean estate. Also: †a trait or characteristic of low rank (obsolete. rare).

Humble or low condition, rank, or estate; unpretentiousness, humbleness.

Lack of social class. rare.