cific purpose, as in "port of
call," where ships stop in passing. Connected with the idea of summoning
by name are such uses as "roll-call" or "call-over," where names are
called over and answered by those present; similar uses are the "call to
the bar," the summoning at an Inn of Court of those students qualified
to practise as barristers, and the "call within the bar" to the
appointment of king's counsel. In the first case the "bar" is that which
separates the benchers from the rest of the body of members of the Inn,
in the other the place in a court of law within which only king's
counsel, and formerly serjeants-at-law, are allowed to plead. "Call" is
also used with a particular reference to a divine summons, as of the
calling of the apostles. It is thus used in nonconformist churches of
the invitation to serve as minister a particular congregation or chapel.
It is from this sense of a _vocatio_ or summons that the word "calling"
is used, not only of the divine vocation, but of a man's ordinary
profession, occupation or business. In card games "call" is used, in
poker, of the demand that the hand of the highest bettor be exposed or
seen, exercised by that player who equals his bet; in whist or bridge,
of a certain method of play, the "call" for a suit or for trumps on the
part of one partner, to which the other is expected to respond; and in
many card games for the naming of a card, irregularly exposed, which is
laid face up on the table, and may be thus "called" for, at any point
the opponent may choose.

"Call" is also a term on the English and American stock exchanges for a
contract by which, in consideration of a certain sum, an "option" is
given by the person making or signing the agreement to another named
therein or his order or to bearer, to "call" for a specified amount of
stock at a certain day for a certain price. A "put," which is the
reverse of a "call," is the option of selling (putting) stock at a
certain day for a certain price. A combined option of either calling or
putting is termed a "straddle," and sometimes on the American stock
exchange a "spread-eagle." (See further STOCK EXCHANGE.) The word is
also used, in connexion with joint-stock companies, to signify a demand
for instalments due on shares, when the capital of the company has not
been demanded or "called" up at once. (See COMPANY.)

CALLANDER, a police burgh of Perthshire, Scotland, 16 m. north-west of
Stirling by the Caledonian rai