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Ally   /ˈælaɪ/  /əlˈaɪ/   Listen
noun
Ally  n.  (pl. allies)  
1.
A relative; a kinsman. (Obs.)
2.
One united to another by treaty or league; usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate. "The English soldiers and their French allies."
3.
Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary. "Science, instead of being the enemy of religion, becomes its ally."
4.
Anything akin to another by structure, etc.


Ally  n.  (pl. allies)  See Alley, a marble or taw.


verb
Ally  v. t.  (past & past part. allied; pres. part. allying)  
1.
To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; often followed by to or with. "O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied."
2.
To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love. "These three did love each other dearly well, And with so firm affection were allied." "The virtue nearest to our vice allied." Note: Ally is generally used in the passive form or reflexively.





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"Ally" Quotes from Famous Books



... Peyster trembled. What more likely than that Matilda, in her amazement, should reveal the house's secret? But the half-light of the room was a very obliging ally against such unsuspicion ...
— No. 13 Washington Square • Leroy Scott
... side was troubled into unnatural silence. He had hoped to find an ally in his cousin's husband, and now what should he do? He had concluded that as an honest man he had done his duty when he had written to Woodburn; but now as a man of honour what should he say to James Penhallow? ...
— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell
... leader, Colonel Johnson, wounded him and pulled him to the earth. But, at this moment, Johnson's faithful dragoons spurred to his rescue. Tecumseh was surrounded and pierced with bullets. Raising his hands aloft, to the great Father of all, this faithful ally and courageous savage, gave one last, stern, defiant look, at the foe, and breathed no more. General Proctor and his personal staff, with a few men, had previously sought safety by flight to Ancaster. ...
— The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation - Volume 1 • Charles Roger
... female facing the South, her great yellow smoldering eyes, filled with the dusky Southern Sea, and who knows what lights and lovers of Buenos Aires, flitting across her dreams?... Had there been absolute need for an ally, Miss Mallory could almost have trusted ...
— Fate Knocks at the Door - A Novel • Will Levington Comfort
... the operations on the other side of the border without taking action. The Austro-Hungarian Government advised us of this view of the situation and asked our opinion in the matter. We were able to assure our ally most heartily of our agreement with her view of the situation and to assure her that any action that she might consider it necessary to take in order to put an end to the movement in Servia directed against the existence of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy would receive our approval. We were fully ...
— The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 - What Americans Say to Europe • Various


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