Claim (klam), v.. [imp. & p. p. Claimed (klamd); p. pr. & vb. n. Claiming.] [OE. clamen, claimen, OF. clamer, fr. L. clamare to cry out, call; akin to calare to proclaim, Gr. to call, Skr. kal to sound, G. holen to fetch, E. hale haul.]
1.
To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
2.
To proclaim.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
3.
To call or name.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
4.
To assert; to maintain.
[Colloq.]
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Claim, v. i.
To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority.
Locke.
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Claim, n. [Of. claim cry, complaint, from clamer. See Claim, v.t.]
1.
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.
2.
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.
"A bar to all
claims upon land."
Hallam.
3.
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.
[U.S. & Australia]
4.
A laoud call.
[Obs.]
Spenser
To lay claim to, to demand as a right. "Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance?"
Shak.
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