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A summoning or convocation, as of Parliament. The frequent calling and meeting of Parlaiment. Macaulay.

fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain. Let every man abide in the same calling. 1 Cor. vii. 20. Followed by by: To abide by. (a) To stand to; to adhere; to maintain. The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first. Fielding.

A recalling to mind; recollection.

Lawless; anarchical. [R.] We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence. Landor.

The act of calling by a name.

The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint.

A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France.

A Scottish phrase used in recalling recollections of times long since past. "The days of auld lang syne."

A calling away; a diversion. [Obs. or Archaic] Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin. South.

Calling off. [Obs.]

A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army.

To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.

A name used in calling a hen or chicken. Shak.

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. "Call of the trumpet." Shak. I rose as at thy call, but found thee not. Milton.

General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a pubic character; as, Washington's career as a soldier. An impartial view of his whole career. Macaulay.

A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls.

amys princeps) inhabiting the summits of the Rocky Mountains; -- also called crying hare, calling hare, cony, American pika, and little chief hare.

A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.

ssed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrese. the plain Billingagate way of calling names . . . would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution. Swift. Circumlocution office, a term of riducle for a governmental office where business is delayed by passing through the hands of different officials.…

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.