Claim

1. n. A loud call.
2. v./. To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
3. v./. To proclaim.
4. v./. To call or name.
5. v./. To assert; to maintain.
6. v. i. To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
7. n. 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.
8. n. 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.
9. n. 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.
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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.