| • | To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name. |
| • | To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To invoke; to appeal to. |
| • | To rouse from sleep; to awaken. |
| • | To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to. |
| • | To make a demand, requirement, or request. |
| • | To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders. |
| • | 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. |
| • | A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty. |
| • | An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor. |
| • | A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal. |
| • | A divine vocation or summons. |
| • | Vocation; employment. |
| • | A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders. |
| • | A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds. |
| • | A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on. |
| • | See Assessment, 4. |
