Claim
Claim (klām) , transitive verb
[Old English clamen, claimen, Old French clamer, from Latin clamare to cry out, call; akin to calare to proclaim, Greek kalei^n to call, Sanskrit kal to sound, German holen to fetch, English hale haul.]
1.
To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
2.
To proclaim. [Obsolete] — Spenser
3.
To call or name. [Obsolete] — Spenser
4.
To assert; to maintain. [Colloquial]
Claim , intransitive verb
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.
Claim , noun
[Of. claim cry, complaint, from clamer. See Claim, transitive verb]
1.
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.
2.
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.
3.
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. [United States & Australia]
4.
A loud call. [Obsolete] — Spenser
Collocations (1)
To lay claim to , to demand as a right. Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance?