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To make a brief visit; also, to stop
at some place designated, as for orders.


He ordered her to call at the house once a
week.

Temple.


To call for (a) To
demand; to require; as, a crime calls for punishment; a
survey, grant, or deed calls for the metes and bounds, or
the quantity of land, etc., which it describes.

(b) To give an order for; to request.
"Whenever the coach stopped, the sailor called for more
ale." Marryat. -- To call on, To
call upon
, (a) To make a short
visit to; as, call on a friend.
(b)
To appeal to; to invite; to request earnestly; as, to call
upon
a person to make a speech.
(c)
To solicit payment, or make a demand, of a debt.
(d) To invoke or play to; to worship; as,
to call upon God.
-- To call out
To call or utter loudly; to brawl.


Call (?), n. 1.
The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often
otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by
writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call
for help; the bugle's call.


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