He would pocket the expense of the license.
--Sterne.
2. To take clandestinely or fraudulently.
He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long
been dead. --Macaulay.
{To pocket 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.
I walked about, admired of all, and dreaded On
hostile ground, none daring my affront. --Milton.
2. Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies
resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity;
insult.
Offering an affront to our understanding. --Addison.
3. An offense to one's self-respect; shame. --Arbuthnot.
Syn: {Affront}, {Insult}, {Outrage}.
Usage: An affront is a designed mark of disrespect, usually
in the presence of others. An insult is a personal
attack either by words or actions, designed to
humiliate or degrade. An outrage is an act of extreme
and violent insult or abuse. An affront piques and
mortifies; an insult irritates and provokes; an
outrage wounds and injures.
Captious persons construe every innocent freedom
into an affront. When people are in a state of
animosity, they seek opportunities of offering
each other insults. Intoxication or violent
passion impels men to the commission of
outrages. --Crabb.
All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant. --Holland.
That he, as 't were by accident, may here Affront
Ophelia. --Shak.
2. To face in defiance; to confront; as, to affront death;
hence, to meet in hostile encounter. [Archaic]
3. To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult
to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked
incivility.
How can any one imagine that the fathers would have
dared to affront the wife of Aurelius? --Addison.
Syn: To insult; abuse; outrage; wound; illtreat; slight;
defy; offend; provoke; pique; nettle.