Claim :: Claim (v. i.) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
Claim :: Claim (n.) A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.
Claim :: Claim (n.) A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant..
Claim :: Claim (n.) The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim.
Counterclaim :: Counterclaim (n.) A claim made by a person as an offset to a claim made on him.
Declaim :: Declaim (v. i.) To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week..
Declaim :: Declaim (v. i.) To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant..
Declaim :: Declaim (v. t.) To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner.
Declaim :: Declaim (v. t.) To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly.