To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.
To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
To be attractive.
To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.
To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).
To have recourse or resort to some physical means.
Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
Of a fielding side; to ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that?" or "Howzat?".
To apply to a superior court or judge to review and overturn (a decision or order by an inferior court or judge).
Of a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.
At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
A summons to defend one's honour in a duel, or one's innocence in a trial by combat; a challenge.
An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
A process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offence against the public; an accusation.
A call to, or the use of, a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.
A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
A resort to some physical means; a recourse.
A power to attract or interest.
To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes.
To bugger.
To use a bot, or automated program.
The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
A physical robot.
A piece of software designed to perform a minor but repetitive task automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.
A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.
A supremely unskilled player.