call \call\, v. i.
   1. to speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; --
      sometimes with to.
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            you must call to the nurse.           --shak.
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            the angel of god called to hagar.     --gen. xxi.
                                                  17.
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   2. to make a demand, requirement, or request.
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            they called for rooms, and he showed them one.
                                                  --bunyan.
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   3. to make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place
      designated, as for orders.
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            he ordered her to call at the house once a week.
                                                  --temple.
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   to call for
      a to demand; to require; as, a crime calls for
          punishment; a survey, grant, or deed calls for the
          metes and bounds, or the quantity of land, etc., which
          it describes.
      b to give an order for; to request. "whenever the coach
          stopped, the sailor called for more ale." --marryat.
          

   to call on, to call upon,
      a to make a short visit to; as, call on a friend.
      b to appeal to; to invite; to request earnestly; as, to
          call upon a person to make a speech.
      c to solicit payment, or make a demand, of a debt.
      d to invoke or play to; to worship; as, to call upon
          god.

   to call out to call or utter loudly; to brawl.
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see also:
to call for to call on to call upon to call out