(v./.) To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority,
right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
(v./.) To proclaim.
(v./.) To call or name.
(v./.) To assert; to maintain.
(v. i.) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title;
to have a claim.
(n.) A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another
for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or
fact.
(n.) A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt,
privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to
anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the
claimant.
(n.) The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any
one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's
claim.
(n.) A loud call.