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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
.
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