Declare

1. v. i. To state the plaintiff’s cause of action at law in a legal form; as, the plaintiff declares in trespass.
2. v. t. To make clear; to free from obscurity.
3. v. t. To make known by language; to communicate or manifest explicitly and plainly in any way; to exhibit; to publish; to proclaim; to announce.
4. v. t. To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow; as, he declares the story to be false.
5. v. t. To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc.
6. v. i. To make a declaration, or an open and explicit avowal; to proclaim one’s self; — often with for or against; as, victory declares against the allies.

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.