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verb

Call v. i.

To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; sometimes with to. "You must call to the nurse." "The angel of God called to Hagar."

To make a demand, requirement, or request. "They called for rooms, and he showed them one."

To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders. "He ordered her to call at the house once a week."

To call for

(a)

To demand; to require; as, a crime calls for punishment; a survey, grant, or deed calls for the metes and bounds, or the quantity of land, etc., which it describes.

(b)

To give an order for; to request. "Whenever the coach stopped, the sailor called for more ale."

To call on, To call upon,

(a)

To make a short visit to; as, call on a friend.

(b)

To appeal to; to invite; to request earnestly; as, to call upon a person to make a speech.

(c)

To solicit payment, or make a demand, of a debt.

(d)

To invoke or play to; to worship; as, to call upon God.

To call out To call or utter loudly; to brawl.

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"Call for" Quotes from Famous Books

... walked on into Z——, and asked Leslie Goldthwaite and Helen Josselyn, begging Mrs. Ingleside to come too, if she would; the doctor would call for them, of course, and should have his supper; but it was to be a girl-party ...

— We Girls: A Home Story • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... should be spinning too, but it's all to no purpose. I shall ne'er do my task:" on which the old woman proposed to do it for her. Overjoyed, the maiden ran to fetch her lint, and placed it in her new friend's hand, asking where she should call for the yarn in the evening; but she received no reply; the old woman passed away from her among the trees and bushes. The girl, much bewildered, wandered about a little, sat down to rest, and finally fell asleep ...

— More English Fairy Tales • Various

... period call for little special notice. Many of the Devonian limestones are "crinoidal;" and the Crinoids are the most abundant and widely-distributed representatives of their class in the deposits ...

— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson

... before seen them, and could not at first imagine who they were, looked so much astonished, that I was ready to laugh myself, till the eldest said, "We're come to take you to the opera, Miss; papa and my brother are below, and we are to call for your grand-mama ...

— Evelina • Fanny Burney

... may thereby be with more ease retained within a limited compass of uniformity than otherwise they would be if each one were suffered to walk in his own course. This also is more to be marvelled at, that very many call for an alteration of their estate, crying to have the word "lord" abolished, their civil authority taken from them, and the present condition of the church in other things reformed; whereas, to say truly, few of them ...

— Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) • Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed

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