·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.