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/kɔl ɑn/ Listen

verb

Call v. i.

To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; sometimes with to. "You must call to the nurse." "The angel of God called to Hagar."

To make a demand, requirement, or request. "They called for rooms, and he showed them one."

To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders. "He ordered her to call at the house once a week."

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."

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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... admirable conduct."—"You need not doubt it," said she, "but I don't wish her to think that I am informed of it." The King, prompted either by the remains of his liking, or from the suggestions of Madame de Pompadour, one morning went to call on Madame d'Amblimont, at Choisy, and threw round her neck a collar of diamonds and emeralds, worth between fifty thousand and seventy-five thousand francs. This happened a long time after the circumstance ...

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— Kent Knowles: Quahaug • Joseph C. Lincoln

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