Insult /(?)/

1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. [Obs.]
2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; a deprecatory remark; an affront; an indignity.

   The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief.

3. An injury to an organism; trauma; as, to produce an experimental insult to investigate healing processes. (Med., Biology)

imp. & p. p. Insulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Insulting

1. To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon. [Obs.]
2. 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.

1. To leap or jump.

   Give me thy knife, I will insult on him.

   Like the frogs in the apologue, insulting upon their wooden king.

2. To behave with insolence; to exult. [Archaic]

   The lion being dead, even hares insult.

   An unwillingness to insult over their helpless fatuity.