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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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"Claim" Quotes from Famous Books

... continued, "you're a staunch and capable ally, and as that gives you a claim on me, you won't find me reluctant to do my part ...

— Ranching for Sylvia • Harold Bindloss

... acquaintances, neglected to honour with an inquiry the man whom you professed to consecrate with your regard, yet scarcely could my hand trace a single sentence before I wrote to you requesting an interview, in order to disclose my birth and claim your plighted faith! That letter was returned to me unanswered, unopened. My friend and benefactor, whose fortune I now inherit, promised to call upon your father and advocate my cause. Death anticipated his kindness. As soon as my sorrow for his loss ...

— The Disowned, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... brave pioneer women who had worked for it so long to get it before they passed away. "I want my mother to vote," he declared amid applause.[41] "The basis of safe and sane government is justice, which has its roots in constitutional liberty and means equal rights and opportunities.... I claim no right or privilege for myself that I would not give to my mother, wife and sister and to every law-abiding citizen." When he had finished his mother rose and said dryly: "That, dear women from the north, east, south and west, is one of ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper

... we could lay claim to have 'hurried' has long since passed, Lady Engleton," said Hubert, "we can only plead forgiveness by blaming you for ...

— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird

... be a lark," acquiesced Rorie, "but it wouldn't do; I should hear too much about it afterwards. A fellow's mother has some kind of claim upon him, you know. ...

— Vixen, Volume I. • M. E. Braddon

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