Claim /(klām)/

imp. & p. p. Claimed; p. pr. & vb. n. Claiming

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. [Obs.]
3. To call or name. [Obs.]
4. To assert; to maintain. [Colloq.]

1. 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.

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.
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. [U.S. & Australia]
4. A loud call. [Obs.]