Dictionary entry

Insult (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

In‐sult″, v. i. 1. To leap or jump.

Give me thy knife, I will insult on him. Shak.

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

2. To behave with insolence; to exult.

The lion being dead, even hares insult. Daniel.

An unwillingness to insult over their helpless fatuity. Landor.