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To domineer over; to affront; to treat with indignity. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To lampoon; to satiraze. [R.] To see himself pasquined and affronted. Dryden.

a boy." Dryden. -- To pass over, to overlook; not to note or resent; as, to pass over an affront.

a ball (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket of the table. -- To pocket an insult, affront, etc., to receive an affront without open resentment, or without seeking redress. "I must pocket up these wrongs." Shak.

or suffer without recompense, punishment, or resentment; as, to put up with an injury or affront.

Indeed; forsooth. To affront the blessed hillside drabs and thieves With mended morals, quotha, -- fine new lives ! Mrs. Browning.

In a bad sense, to take ill; to consider as an injury or affront; to be indignant at.

With a sense of wrong or affront; with resentment.

member with anger; to dislike. Shak. The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront. L'Estrange. The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his counselors and dictators, though he stomach it. Milton.

e than adults; a man of a susceptible heart. Candidates are . . . not very susceptible of affronts. Cowper. I am constitutionally susceptible of noises. Lamb. -- Sus*cep"ti*ble*ness, n. -- Sus*cep"ti*bly, adv.

To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult.

or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man.

uls of friend and friend. Shak. Oft have they violated The temple, oft the law, with foul affronts. Milton.

Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish. He was naturally a waspish and hot man. Bp. Hall. Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace This jealous, waspish, wrong-head, rhyming race. Pope.