Definition of call

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Call (v. t.) To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church..

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Wung-out :: Wung-out (a.) Having the sails set in the manner called wing-and-wing.
Banyan :: Banyan (n.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men..
Quantic :: Quantic (n.) A homogeneous algebraic function of two or more variables, in general containing only positive integral powers of the variables, and called quadric, cubic, quartic, etc., according as it is of the second, third, fourth, fifth, or a higher degree. These are further called binary, ternary, quaternary, etc., according as they contain two, three, four, or more variables; thus, the quantic / is a binary cubic..
Skiving :: Skiving (n.) A piece made in paring or splitting leather; specifically, the part from the inner, or flesh, side..
Ophite :: Ophite (n.) A greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene has been altered to uralite; -- first found in the Pyreness. So called from the colored spots which give it a mottled appearance..
Miller :: Miller (n.) A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller..
Zed :: Zed (n.) The letter Z; -- called also zee, and formerly izzard..
Quarterstaff :: Quarterstaff (n.) A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense; -- so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end..
Punctator :: Punctator (n.) One who marks with points. specifically, one who writes Hebrew with points; -- applied to a Masorite..
Endemically :: Endemically (adv.) In an endemic manner.
Autoptically :: Autoptically (adv.) By means of ocular view, or one's own observation..
Bouget :: Bouget (n.) A charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water; -- also called water bouget.
Recollect :: Recollect (v. t.) To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.
Trehalose :: Trehalose (n.) Mycose; -- so called because sometimes obtained from trehala.
Fluoroid :: Fluoroid (n.) A tetrahexahedron; -- so called because it is a common form of fluorite.
Muscardine :: Muscardine (n.) A disease which is very destructive to silkworms, and which sometimes extends to other insects. It is attended by the development of a fungus (provisionally called Botrytis bassiana). Also, the fungus itself..
Ling :: Ling (n.) Heather (Calluna vulgaris).
Escallop :: Escallop (n.) See Escalop.
Revocation :: Revocation (n.) The act of calling back, or the state of being recalled; recall..
Review :: Review (n.) To go over and examine critically or deliberately.
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