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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Call, v. i.
 1. To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to.
    You must call to the nurse.   --Shak.
    The angel of God called to Hagar.   --Gen. xxi. 17.
 2. To make a demand, requirement, or request.
    They called for rooms, and he showed them one.   --Bunyan.
 3. 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.   --Temple.
 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.” --Marryat.
 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.