Insult

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To leap or jump.

II. Insult ·vt The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

III. Insult ·vt To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.

IV. Insult ·vi To behave with insolence; to Exult.

V. Insult ·vt Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an Indignity.

VI. Insult ·vt To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to Abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.