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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. To direct or point, as a weapon, at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object; as, to aim a musket or an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Aimed p. pr. & vb. n. Aiming. ] [ OE. amen, aimen, eimen, to guess at, to estimate, to aim, OF. esmer, asmer, fr. L. aestimare to estimate; or perh. fr. OF. aesmer; &unr_; (L. ad) + esmer. See Estimate. ] 1. To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To direct the indention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor; -- followed by at, or by an infinitive; as, to aim at distinction; to aim to do well. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aim'st thou at princes? Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To guess or conjecture. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. esme estimation, fr. esmer. See Aim, v. i. ] 1. The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each at the head leveled his deadly aim. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be the aim of every dangerous shot. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Intention; purpose; design; scheme. [ 1913 Webster ]

How oft ambitious aims are crossed! Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Conjecture; guess. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

What you would work me to, I have some aim. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cry aim (Archery), to encourage. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- End; object; scope; drift; design; purpose; intention; scheme; tendency; aspiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who aims, directs, or points. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without aim or purpose; as, an aimless life. -- Aim"less*ly, adv. -- Aim"less*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Prob. native name. ] (Zool.) A large fresh-water food fish of South America. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Array, v. t. ] Clothes; raiment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Turk. ] The governor of a sanjak or district in Turkey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Cayman. [ 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 ]

n.; pl. Daimios [ Jap., fr. Chin. tai ming great name. ] The title of the feudal nobles of Japan. [ 1913 Webster ]

The daimios, or territorial nobles, resided in Yedo and were divided into four classes. Am. Cyc. [ 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 ]

a. [ OE. engleimen to smear, gleim birdlime, glue, phlegm. ] Clammy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ The proper name. ] (Zoöl.) A hunter's name for the grizzly bear. [ 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. Same as Caimacam. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Maimed p. pr. & vb. n. Maiming. ] [ OE. maimen, OF. mahaignier, mehaignier, meshaignier, cf. It. magagnare, LL. mahemiare, mahennare; perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. mac'haña to mutilate, māc'ha to crowd, press; or cf. OHG. mangōn to lack, perh. akin to E. mangle to lacerate. Cf. Mayhem. ] 1. To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person in fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary. [ 1913 Webster ]

By the ancient law of England he that maimed any man whereby he lost any part of his body, was sentenced to lose the like part. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair. [ 1913 Webster ]

My late maimed limbs lack wonted might. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

You maimed the jurisdiction of all bishops. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To mutilate; mangle; cripple. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written in law language maihem, and mayhem. ] [ OF. mehaing. See Maim, v. ] 1. The privation of the use of a limb or member of the body, by which one is rendered less able to defend himself or to annoy his adversary. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem. [ 1913 Webster ]

Surely there is more cause to fear lest the want there of be a maim than the use of it a blemish. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

A noble author esteems it to be a maim in history that the acts of Parliament should not be recited. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a maimed manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being maimed. Bolton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not rightly aimed. Spenser. [ 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 ]

n. [ Abbrev. fr. arraiment. See Array. ] 1. Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

Living, both food and raiment she supplies. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An article of dress. [ R. or Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 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 ]