Definition of call

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Call (v. i.) To make a demand, requirement, or request..

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Torsk :: Torsk (n.) The codfish. Called also tusk.
Cluck :: Cluck (n.) The call of a hen to her chickens.
Amble :: Amble (v. i.) To go at the easy gait called an amble; -- applied to the horse or to its rider.
Tonic :: Tonic (a.) Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation..
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Revivificate :: Revivificate (v. t.) To revive; to recall or restore to life.
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Heartwood :: Heartwood (n.) The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum..
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Roll :: Roll (v.) The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching..
Diabase :: Diabase (n.) A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone..
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Demand :: Demand (v. t.) To call into court; to summon.
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Regeneration :: Regeneration (n.) The union of parts which have been severed, so that they become anatomically perfect; as, the regeneration of a nerve..
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