verb
To reach out with one's voice.
That person is hurt; call for help!
So they called for Rooms; and he ſhewed them one for Christiana and her Children and Mercy, and another for Mr. Great-heart and the old Gentleman.
To reach out with one's voice.
"Supper's ready," called Dad from the kitchen.
If you heare a child crie in the night you must call to the nurſe and bid her ſtil it.
To reach out with one's voice.
to call the roll of a military company
Not ballad-ſinger plac'd above the croud, / Sings with a note ſo ſhrilling ſweet and loud, / Nor pariſh clerk who calls the pſalm ſo clear, / Like Bowzybeus ſooths th' attentive ear.
To reach out with one's voice.
Why don’t you call me in the morning?
Why don’t you call tomorrow?
To reach out with one's voice.
Take not away the Taper, leaue it burning: / And if thou canſt awake by foure o’th’clock, / I prythee call me: Sleepe hath ceiz’d me wholly.
noun
A cry or shout.
He heard a call from the other side of the room.
The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird.
A beckoning or summoning.
I had to yield to the call of the wild.
Dependance is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity, than any other motive whatsoever.
A telephone conversation; a phone call.
I received several phone calls today.
I received several calls today.
An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
I made a call to Jim, but he didn’t answer.
name
A surname.