Claim

·noun A loud call.

II. Claim (·vt) To proclaim.

III. Claim (·vt) To call or name.

IV. Claim (·vt) To assert; to Maintain.

V. Claim ·vi To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

VI. 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.

VII. 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.

VIII. 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.

IX. 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.