- (v.t.) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.i.) To leap or jump.
- (v.t.) Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.
- (v.i.) To behave with insolence; to exult.
- (v.t.) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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