\Claim\ (kl[=a]m), v.?. [imp. & p. p. {Claimed}
(kl[=a]md); p. pr. & vb. n. {Claiming}.] [OE. clamen,
claimen, OF. clamer, fr. L. clamare to cry out, call; akin to
calare to proclaim, Gr. ? to call, Skr. kal to sound, G.
holen to fetch, E. hale haul.]
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.] --Spenser.
3. To call or name. [Obs.] --Spenser.
4. 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.           --Locke.

\Claim\, n. [Of. claim cry, complaint, from clamer. See
{Claim}, v. t.]
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. ``A bar to all claims upon
   land.'' --Hallam.
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.] --Spenser
{To lay claim to}, to demand as a right. ``Doth he lay claim
   to thine inheritance?'' --Shak.