Challenge

1. n. An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
2. n. An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
3. n. The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.
4. n. A claim or demand.
5. n. The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
6. n. An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause.
7. n. To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.
8. n. To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.
9. n. To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.