Available Definitions:
1) v. t. - To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
2) v. t. - To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church.
3) v. t. - To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen.
4) v. t. - To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name.
5) v. t. - To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate.
6) v. t. - To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.
7) v. t. - To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of.
8) v. t. - To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company.
9) v. t. - To invoke; to appeal to.
10) v. t. - To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
11) v. i. - To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to.
12) v. i. - To make a demand, requirement, or request.
13) v. i. - To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders.
14) n. - The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call.
15) n. - A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty.
16) n. - An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
17) n. - A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal.
18) n. - A divine vocation or summons.
19) n. - Vocation; employment.
20) n. - A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders.
21) n. - A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds.
22) n. - A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty.
23) n. - The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
24) n. - A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
25) n. - The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on.
26) n. - See Assessment , 4.