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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Call \Call\ (k[add]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Called} (k[add]ld);
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Calling}] [OE. callen, AS. ceallian; akin to
      Icel. & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen to talk, prate, OHG.
      kall[omac]n to call; cf. Gr. ghry`ein to speak, sing, Skr.
      gar to praise. Cf. {Garrulous}.]
      1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon;
            as, to call a servant.
  
                     Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain --Shak.
  
      2. 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.
  
                     Paul . . . called to be an apostle      --Rom. i. 1.
  
                     The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul
                     for the work whereunto I have called them. --Acts
                                                                              xiii. 2.
  
      3. To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with
            together; as, the President called Congress together; to
            appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of
            Aldermen.
  
                     Now call we our high court of Parliament. --Shak.
  
      4. To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a
            specifed name.
  
                     If you would but call me Rosalind.      --Shak.
  
                     And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
                     called Night.                                    --Gen. i. 5.
  
      5. To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to
            denominate; to designate.
  
                     What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
                                                                              --Acts x. 15.
  
      6. To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to
            characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call
            the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work.
  
                     [The] army is called seven hundred thousand men.
                                                                              --Brougham.
  
      7. To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality
            of. [Obs.]
  
                     This speech calls him Spaniard.         --Beau. & Fl.
  
      8. To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off;
            as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call
            the roll of a military company.
  
                     No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. --Gay.
  
      9. To invoke; to appeal to.
  
                     I call God for a witness.                  --2 Cor. i. 23
                                                                              [Rev. Ver. ]
  
      10. To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
  
                     If thou canst awake by four o' the clock. I prithee
                     call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly. --Shak.
  
      {To call a bond}, to give notice that the amount of the bond
            will be paid.
  
      {To call a party} (Law), to cry aloud his name in open court,
            and command him to come in and perform some duty requiring
            his presence at the time on pain of what may befall him.
           
  
      {To call back}, to revoke or retract; to recall; to summon
            back.
  
      {To call down}, to pray for, as blessing or curses.
  
      {To call forth}, to bring or summon to action; as, to call
            forth all the faculties of the mind.
  
      {To call in},
            (a) To collect; as, to call in debts or money; ar to
                  withdraw from cirulation; as, to call in uncurrent
                  coin.
            (b) To summon to one's side; to invite to come together;
                  as, to call in neighbors.
  
      {To call (any one) names}, to apply contemptuous names (to
            any one).
  
      {To call off}, to summon away; to divert; as, to call off the
            attention; to call off workmen from their employment.
  
      {To call out}.
            (a) To summon to fight; to challenge.
            (b) To summon into service; as, to call out the militia.
                 
  
      {To call over}, to recite separate particulars in order, as a
            roll of names.
  
      {To call to account}, to demand explanation of.
  
      {To call to mind}, to recollect; to revive in memory.
  
      {To call to order}, to request to come to order; as:
            (a) A public meeting, when opening it for business.
            (b) A person, when he is transgressing the rules of
                  debate.
  
      {To call to the bar}, to admit to practice in courts of law.
           
  
      {To call up}.
            (a) To bring into view or recollection; as to call up the
                  image of deceased friend.
            (b) To bring into action or discussion; to demand the
                  consideration of; as, to call up a bill before a
                  legislative body.
  
      Syn: To name; denominate; invite; bid; summon; convoke;
               assemble; collect; exhort; warn; proclaim; invoke;
               appeal to; designate.
  
      Usage: {To Call}, {Convoke}, {Summon}. Call is the generic
                  term; as, to call a public meeting. To convoke is to
                  require the assembling of some organized body of men
                  by an act of authority; as, the king convoked
                  Parliament. To summon is to require attendance by an
                  act more or less stringent anthority; as, to summon a
                  witness.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Call \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. [bd]Call of the
            trumpet.[b8] --Shak.
  
                     I rose as at thy call, but found thee not. --Milton.
  
      2. A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon
            soldiers or sailors to duty.
  
      3. (Eccl.) An invitation to take charge of or serve a church
            as its pastor.
  
      4. A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of
            the case; a moral requirement or appeal.
  
                     Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
                     Running into danger without any call of duty.
                                                                              --Macaulay.
  
      5. A divine vocation or summons.
  
                     St. Paul himself believed he did well, and that he
                     had a call to it, when he persecuted the Christians.
                                                                              --Locke.
  
      6. Vocation; employment.
  
      Note: [In this sense, calling is generally used.]
  
      7. A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the
            daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders.
  
                     The baker's punctual call.                  --Cowper.
  
      8. (Hunting) A note blown on the horn to encourage the
            hounds.
  
      9. (Naut.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his
            mate, to summon the sailors to duty.
  
      10. (Fowling) The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in
            imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating
            their note or cry.
  
      11. (Amer. Land Law) A reference to, or statement of, an
            object, course, distance, or other matter of description
            in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a
            corresponding object, etc., on the land.
  
      12. The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or
            any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain
            time agreed on. [Brokers' Cant]
  
      13. See {Assessment}, 4.
  
      {At call}, or {On call}, liable to be demanded at any moment
            without previous notice; as money on deposit.
  
      {Call bird}, a bird taught to allure others into a snare.
  
      {Call boy}
            (a) A boy who calls the actors in a theater; a boy who
                  transmits the orders of the captain of a vessel to
                  the engineer, helmsman, etc.
            (b) A waiting boy who answers a cal, or cames at the
                  ringing of a bell; a bell boy.
  
      {Call note}, the note naturally used by the male bird to call
            the female. It is artificially applied by birdcatchers as
            a decoy. --Latham.
  
      {Call of the house} (Legislative Bodies), a calling over the
            names of members, to discover who is absent, or for other
            purposes; a calling of names with a view to obtaining the
            ayes and noes from the persons named.
  
      {Call to the bar}, admission to practice in the courts.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Call \Call\, v. i.
      1. To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; --
            sometimes with to.
  
                     You must call to the nurse.               --Shak.
  
                     The angel of God called to Hagar.      --Gen. xxi.
                                                                              17.
  
      2. To make a demand, requirement, or request.
  
                     They called for rooms, and he showed them one.
                                                                              --Bunyan.
  
      3. 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. [bd]Whenever the
                  coach stopped, the sailor called for more ale.[b8]
                  --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.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Call, TX
      Zip code(s): 75933

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Call
      (1.) To cry for help, hence to pray (Gen. 4:26). Thus men are
      said to "call upon the name of the Lord" (Acts 2:21; 7:59; 9:14;
      Rom. 10:12; 1 Cor. 1:2).
     
         (2.) God calls with respect to men when he designates them to
      some special office (Ex. 31:2; Isa. 22:20; Acts 13:2), and when
      he invites them to accept his offered grace (Matt. 9:13; 11:28;
      22:4).
     
         In the message of the gospel his call is addressed to all men,
      to Jews and Gentiles alike (Matt. 28:19; Mark 16:15; Rom. 9:24,
      25). But this universal call is not inseparably connected with
      salvation, although it leaves all to whom it comes inexcusable
      if they reject it (John 3:14-19; Matt. 22:14).
     
         An effectual call is something more than the outward message
      of the Word of God to men. It is internal, and is the result of
      the enlightening and sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit
      (John 16:14; Acts 26: 18; John 6:44), effectually drawing men to
      Christ, and disposing and enabling them to receive the truth
      (John 6:45; Acts 16:14; Eph. 1:17).
     
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