CLAIM,
1. To call for to ask or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right or supposed right to challenge as a right to demand as due as, to claim a debt to claim obedience, or respect.
2. To assert, or maintain as a right as, he claims to be the best poet of the age.
3. To have a right or title to as, the heir claims the estate by descent he claims a promise.
4. To proclaim.
5. To call or name.
CLAIM, n.
1. A demand of a right or supposed right a calling on another for something due, or supposed to be due as a claim of wages for services. A claim implies a right or supposed right in the claimant to something which is in anothers possession or power. A claim may be made in words, by suit, and by other means. The word is usually preceded by make or lay to make claim to lay claim.
2. A right to claim or demand a title to any debt, privilege or other thing in possession of another as, a prince has a claim to the throne.
Homers claims to the first rank among Epic poets have rarely been disputed.
3. The thing claimed, or demanded.
4. A loud call.