(v. t.) To command or request to come or be present; to summon;
as, to call a servant.
(v. t.) To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to
designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious
character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the
ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor
of a church.
(v. t.) To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with
together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and
summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen.
(v. t.) To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a
specifed name.
(v. t.) To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to
denominate; to designate.
(v. t.) To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to
characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance
ten miles; he called it a full day's work.
(v. t.) To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality
of.
(v. t.) To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off;
as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of
a military company.
(v. t.) To invoke; to appeal to.
(v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
(v. i.) To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; --
sometimes with to.
(v. i.) To make a demand, requirement, or request.
(v. i.) To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place
designated, as for orders.
(n.) The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often
otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a
summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's
call.
(n.) A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon
soldiers or sailors to duty.
(n.) An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its
pastor.
(n.) A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the
case; a moral requirement or appeal.
(n.) A divine vocation or summons.
(n.) Vocation; employment.
(n.) A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the
daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders.
(n.) A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.
(n.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to
summon the sailors to duty.
(n.) The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a
bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
(n.) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance,
or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or
calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
(n.) The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any
commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on.
(n.) See Assessment, 4.
