(n.) An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of
any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also,
the letter or message conveying the summons.
(n.) The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at
his post, and demanding the countersign.
(n.) A claim or demand.
(n.) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the
scent of their game.
(n.) An exception to a juror or to a member of a court
martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to
act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not
sit in trial upon him or his cause.
(n.) An exception to a person as not legally qualified to
vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
(n.) To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to
defy.
(n.) To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by
personal combat.
(n.) To claim as due; to demand as a right.
(n.) To censure; to blame.
(n.) To question or demand the countersign from (one who
attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who
comes there?"
(n.) To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the
accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.
(n.) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or
member of a court.
(n.) To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the
ground that the person in not qualified as a voter.
(v. i.) To assert a right; to claim a place.
