n. A summons; an official call or notice given to a person to appear in a court and answer to a demand; a call or notice to appear.n. The paper containing such notice or call.n. The act of citing or quoting a passage from a book, or a statement in the words of the one who made it; hence, the passage or words quoted; a quotation.n. Specifically, in law, a reference to decided cases, or to statutes, treatises, or other authorities, to maintain a point of law.n. Enumeration; mention.