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claim
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Claim \Claim\ (kl[=a]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Claimed (kl[=a]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Claiming.] [OE. clamen, claimen, OF. clamer, fr. L. clamare to cry out, call; akin to calare to proclaim, Gr. kalei^n 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To proclaim. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 3. To call or name. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 4. To assert; to maintain. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Claim \Claim\, v. i.
To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to
have a claim.
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We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one
claims, came by his authority. --Locke.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Claim \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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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] [1913 Webster] 4. A loud call. [Obs.] --Spenser [1913 Webster] To lay claim to, to demand as a right. "Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance?" --Shak. [1913 Webster]
