Part 1962

<h1>Claik</h1> <Xpage=261>

<hw>Claik</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Clake</er>.</def>

<h1>Claim</h1> <Xpage=261>

<hw>Claim</hw> <tt>(kl\'bem)</tt>, <tt>v.<?/.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Claimed</er> <tt>(kl\'bemd)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Claiming</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>clamen</ets>, <ets>claimen</ets>, OF. <ets>clamer</ets>, fr. L. <ets>clamare</ets> to cry out, call; akin to <ets>calare</ets> to proclaim, Gr. <?/ to call, Skr. <ets>kal</ets> to sound, G. <ets>holen</ets> to fetch, E. <ets>hale</ets> haul.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To proclaim.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To call or name.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To assert; to maintain.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<h1>Claim</h1> <Xpage=261>

<hw>Claim</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.</def>

<blockquote>We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one <b>claims</b>, came by his authority. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Claim</h1> <Xpage=261>

<hw>Claim</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Of. <ets>claim</ets> cry, complaint, from <ets>clamer</ets>. See <er>Claim</er>, v.t.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def> "A bar to all <i>claims</i> upon land."

<i>Hallam.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's <i>claim</i>; a miner's <i>claim</i>.</def> <mark>[U.S. & Australia]</mark>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A laoud call.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser</i>

<blockquote>To lay claim to, to demand as a right. "Doth he <b>lay claim to</b> thine inheritance?" <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Claimable</h1> <Xpage=261>

<hw>Claim"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being claimed.</def>

<h1>Claimant</h1> <Xpage=261>

<hw>Claim"ant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>OF</er>. <ets>clamant</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>clamer</ets>. Cf.<er>Clamant</er>.]</ety> <def>One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer.</def>

<h1>Claimer</h1> <Xpage=261>

<hw>Claim"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who claims; a claimant.</def>

<h1>Claimless</h1> <Xpage=261>

<hw>Claim"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having no claim.</def>