Definition
• | The act of leaping on; onset; attack. |
• | Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. |
• | To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon. |
• | 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. |
• | To leap or jump. |
• | To behave with insolence; to exult. |