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.

To assert, or maintain as a right; as, he claims to be the best poet of the age.

To have a right or title to; as, the heir claims the estate by descent; he claims a promise.

To proclaim.

To call or name.

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.

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.

The thing claimed, or demanded.

A loud call.