1.To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; sometimes with to. "You must call to the nurse." "The angel of God called to Hagar."
2.To make a demand, requirement, or request. "They called for rooms, and he showed them one."
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."
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."
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.
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