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lay claim to something to place a claim on something. Do you really think you can lay claim to that money after all these years? Someone came by and laid claim to the wallet you found. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Thus, a real man and a figure in a picture can both lay claim to the name 'animal'; yet these are equivocally so named, for, though they have a common name, the definition corresponding with the name differs for each. As a whole, I had scarcely ever seen a young creature that could lay claim to more of the loveliness of her sex. Archer's generation) were aware that, in the eyes of the professional genealogist, only a still smaller number of families could lay claim to that eminence. |
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