Call

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·see Assessment, 4.

II. Call ·noun Vocation; employment.

III. Call ·noun A divine vocation or summons.

IV. Call ·vi To make a demand, requirement, or request.

V. Call ·vt To Invoke; to appeal to.

VI. Call ·noun A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.

VII. Call ·vt To rouse from sleep; to Awaken.

VIII. Call ·vt To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of.

IX. Call ·noun An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.

X. Call ·vi To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name;

— sometimes with to.

XI. Call ·vi To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders.

XII. Call ·noun A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty.

XIII. Call ·noun A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty.

XIV. Call ·vt To give name to; to Name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.

XV. Call ·noun A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal.

XVI. Call ·vt To command or request to come or be present; to Summon; as, to call a servant.

XVII. Call ·noun A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders.

XVIII. Call ·noun The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.

XIX. Call ·vt To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to Denominate; to Designate.

XX. Call ·noun The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on.

XXI. Call ·vt To utter in a loud or distinct voice;

— often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company.

XXII. Call ·vt To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.

XXIII. Call ·noun A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, ·etc., on the land.

XXIV. Call ·noun The act of calling;

— usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call.

XXV. Call ·vt To invite or command to meet; to Convoke;

— often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen.

XXVI. Call ·vt To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character;

— often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.

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