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v. i. To shout applause. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Acclamation. [ Poetic ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who acclaims. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Claimed p. pr. & vb. n. Claiming. ] [ OE. clamen, claimen, OF. clamer, fr. L. clamare to cry out, call; akin to calare to proclaim, Gr. kalei^n to call, Skr. kal to sound, G. holen to fetch, E. hale haul. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To proclaim. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To call or name. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To assert; to maintain. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim. [ 1913 Webster ]

We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of. claim cry, complaint, from clamer. See Claim, v. t. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. “A bar to all claims upon land.” Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ U.S. & Australia ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A loud call. [ Obs. ] Spenser [ 1913 Webster ]

To lay claim to, to demand as a right. “Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance?” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being claimed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. clamant, p. pr. of clamer. Cf. Clamant. ] One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who claims; a claimant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no claim. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) A claim made by a person as an offset to a claim made on him. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Declaimed p. pr. & vb. n. Declaiming. ] [ L. declamare; de- + clamare to cry out: cf. F. déclamer. See Claim. ] 1. To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal of the stamp act. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly. [ Obs. ] “Declaims his cause.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A declaimer. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who declaims; an haranguer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disclaimed p. pr. & vb. n. Disclaiming. ] 1. To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject. [ 1913 Webster ]

He calls the gods to witness their offense;
Disclaims the war, asserts his innocence. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

He disclaims the authority of Jesus. Farmer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deny, as a claim; to refuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

The payment was irregularly made, if not disclaimed. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office. Burrill.

Syn. -- To disown; disavow; renounce; repudiate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Disclaim in,
Disclaim from, to disown; to disavow. [ Obs. ] “Nature disclaims in thee.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A public disavowal, as of pretensions, claims, opinions, and the like. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Exclaimed p. pr. & vb. n. Exclaiming. ] [ L. exclamare, exclamatum; ex + clamare to cry out; cf. OF. exclamer. See Clam. ] To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment; “The field is won!” he exclaimed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Outcry; clamor. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Cursing cries and deep exclaims. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who exclaims. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incapable of being reclaimed. Addison. -- ir`re*claim"a*bly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. A mistaken claim. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A failure to make claim within the time limited by law; omission of claim. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Proclaimed p. pr. & vb. n. Proclaiming. ] [ OE. proclamen, L. proclamare; pro before, forward + clamare to call or cry out: cf. F. proclamer. See Claim. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To make known by public announcement; to give wide publicity to; to publish abroad; to promulgate; to declare; as, to proclaim war or peace. [ 1913 Webster ]

To proclaim liberty to the captives. Isa. lxi. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

For the apparel oft proclaims the man. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Throughout the host proclaim
A solemn council forthwith to be held. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To outlaw by public proclamation. [ 1913 Webster ]

I heard myself proclaimed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To publish; promulgate; declare; announce. See Announce. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who proclaims. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Quitclaimed p. pr. & vb. n. Quitclaiming. ] (Law) To release or relinquish a claim to; to release a claim to by deed, without covenants of warranty against adverse and paramount titles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Quit, a. + claim. ] (Law) A release or relinquishment of a claim; a deed of release; an instrument by which some right, title, interest, or claim, which one person has, or is supposed to have, in or to an estate held by himself or another, is released or relinquished, the grantor generally covenanting only against persons who claim under himself. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of. [ 1913 Webster ]

A tract of land [ Holland ] snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy. W. Coxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reclaimed p. pr. & vb. n. Reclaiming. ] [ F. réclamer, L. reclamare, reclamatum, to cry out against; pref. re- re- + clamare to call or cry aloud. See Claim. ] 1. To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting. [ 1913 Webster ]

The headstrong horses hurried Octavius . . . along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under discipline; -- said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also of other animals. “An eagle well reclaimed.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To correct; to reform; -- said of things. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Your error, in time reclaimed, will be venial. Sir E. Hoby. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To exclaim against; to gainsay. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To reform; recover; restore; amend; correct. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scripture reclaims, and the whole Catholic church reclaims, and Christian ears would not hear it. Waterland. [ 1913 Webster ]

At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton. Bain. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform. [ 1913 Webster ]

They, hardened more by what might most reclaim,
Grieving to see his glory, . . . took envy. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To draw back; to give way. [ R. & Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be reclaimed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. réclamant, p. pr. ] One who reclaims; one who cries out against or contradicts. Waterland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who reclaims. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That can not be reclaimed. [ 1913 Webster ]