| Challenge |
n. |
An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons. |
| Challenge |
n. |
The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign. |
| Challenge |
n. |
A claim or demand. |
| Challenge |
n. |
The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game. |
| Challenge |
n. |
An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause. |
| Challenge |
n. |
An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered. |
| Challenge |
n. |
To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy. |
| Challenge |
n. |
To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat. |
| Challenge |
n. |
To claim as due; to demand as a right. |
| Challenge |
n. |
To censure; to blame. |
| Challenge |
n. |
To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?" |
| Challenge |
n. |
To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation. |
| Challenge |
n. |
To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court. |
| Challenge |
n. |
To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter. |
| Challenge |
v. i. |
To assert a right; to claim a place. |
