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noun

Claim n.

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.

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. "A bar to all claims upon land."

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. (U.S. & Australia)

A loud call. (Obs.)

To lay claim to, to demand as a right. "Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance?"

verb

Claim v. t. (past & past part. claimed; pres. part. claiming)

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

To proclaim. (Obs.)

To call or name. (Obs.)

To assert; to maintain. (Colloq.)

Claim v. i. To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim. "We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority."

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Etymology of 'Claim'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Claim" Quotes from Famous Books

... interpolations in the maritime code of nations at the mere will and pleasure of other Governments—we deny the right of any such interpolation, to any one or all the nations of the earth without our consent—we claim to have a voice in all alterations ...

— Select Speeches of Kossuth • Kossuth

... but thee, my Guilo! be content; The greediest heart can claim but present pleasure. The future is thy God's. The past is spent. To-day is thine; clasp ...

— Poems of Passion • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... was too greatly rejoiced at the success of my mission to be very severe or retributive in my behaviour just then. I therefore paid the full amount agreed upon, but directed Lobo to say that although I paid it I did not consider that Matadi was entitled to claim a single article in view of his unprovoked attack upon the schooner, and the miserable condition in which he had delivered up his captives. But I paid it in order that he might practically learn that an Englishman never breaks a promise that he has once made. And having ...

— The Pirate Slaver - A Story of the West African Coast • Harry Collingwood

... she is a woman now, and we have no claim on her. Because we've befriended her for years is the very reason we should not make our benefits a burden, but leave her free, and if she chooses to do this in spite of Archie, we must let her ...

— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott

... his heart. In the experience of his sylvan life as a hunter Wyatt's peculiar and subtle temperament evolved certain fine-spun distinctions which were unique; a trapped thing had a special appeal to his commiseration that a creature ruthlessly slaughtered in the open was not privileged to claim. He did not accurately and in words discriminate the differences, but he felt that the captive had sounded all the gamut of hope and despair, shared the gradations of an appreciated sorrow that makes all souls akin and that even ...

— His Unquiet Ghost - 1911 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

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