CLAIM

noun a loud call.

2. claim (·vt) to proclaim.

3. claim (·vt) to call or name.

4. claim (·vt) to assert; to maintain.

5. claim ·vi to be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

6. claim (·vt) to ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

7. claim ·noun 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.

8. claim ·noun 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.

9. claim ·noun 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.