CLAIM

Definitions

1. 1. To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
2. 2. To proclaim. [Obs.] Spenser.
3. 3. To call or name. [Obs.] Spenser.
4. 4. To assert; to maintain. [Colloq.]