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Rally   /rˈæli/   Listen
noun
Rally  n.  (pl. rallies)  
1.
The act or process of rallying (in any of the senses of that word).
2.
A political mass meeting. (Colloq. U. S.)


Rally  n.  Good-humored raillery.


verb
Rally  v. t.  (past & past part. rallied; pres. part. rallying)  To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.


Rally  v. t.  To attack with raillery, either in good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire. "Honeycomb... rallies me upon a country life." "Strephon had long confessed his amorous pain, Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain."
Synonyms: To banter; ridicule; satirize; deride; mock.


Rally  v. i.  
1.
To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite. "The Grecians rally, and their powers unite." "Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world."
2.
To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
3.
To recover strength after a decline in prices; said of the market, stocks, etc.


Rally  v. i.  To use pleasantry, or satirical merriment.





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... battle at Czaslaw, where the Austrians at first gained a manifest advantage, and penetrated as far as the Prussian baggage; then the irregulars began to plunder so eagerly, that they neglected every other consideration. The Prussian infantry took this opportunity to rally; the battle was renewed, and after a very obstinate contest, the victory was snatched out of the hands of the Austrians, who were obliged to retire with the loss of five thousand men killed, and twelve hundred taken by the enemy. ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett
... one. But I believe Manly is a little how-come ye-so. I'll say this for him, though: he had nothing to do with tapping the casks, and he didn't seem to know what it was the boys gin him. He was dry; it tasted sweet, and he drinked, nat'rally." ...
— The Drummer Boy • John Trowbridge
... them different from all that their fancy had pictured; and their courage, not being obliged to face those dangers to which they had adjusted it, and being forced to face much to which it was not adjusted, suffered shock, and took a little time to rally into moderate animation. ...
— What Necessity Knows • Lily Dougall
... and has had the glory of enriching our language by his phrases, as much as he has improved medicine by his bills.' The critic then proceeds to consider the poem more minutely, and to expose it by enumerating particulars. Mr. Addison in a Whig Examiner published September 14, 1710, takes occasion to rally the fierce over-bearing spirit of the Tory Examiner, which, he says, has a better title to the name of the executioner. He then enters into the defence of the Dr's. poem, and observes, 'that the phrase of passions being poized, and ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Vol. III • Theophilus Cibber
... crews of which vessels had suffered still more, so that had there been an experienced enemy to have dealt with us, they might have made a very easy conquest of us all. But, 'whatever is, is right.' They gave us time to recover our spirits and rally our forces, for which we visited them afterwards and ...
— Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II • Sir John Ross


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