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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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"Rally" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the day was dead. It could not rally from that stroke. They went on to Stra, as they had planned, but the glory of the Villa Pisani was eclipsed for Don Ippolito. He plainly did not know what to do. He did not address Florida again, whose savagery ...
— A Foregone Conclusion • W. D. Howells
... occasions to account for, that Anneke had little else to do, for the first ten minutes, but to listen. I have always ascribed the self-possession which my companion was enabled to command during the remainder of this interview, to the time that was thus accorded her to rally ...
— Satanstoe • James Fenimore Cooper
... To rally myself by calling to mind my own better fortune and nobler lot, and cherished surroundings at home, was impossible. Borne down by depression, the day being yet at its noon, and the sun over the old point—it is four miles to the town, the Presidio,—I have walked it often, and can do it once ...
— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana
... domestic phase. He had not only long felt how intensely Olive disliked him, but he had observed that somehow it embarrassed Ben Halleck to see him in his character of devoted young father. At those times he used to rally his old friend upon getting married, and laughed at the confusion to which the joke put him. He said more than once afterwards, that he did not see what fun Ben Halleck got out of coming there; it must bore even such a dull fellow as he was to sit a whole evening like ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
... watched the savages, for we could not be certain of their intentions. They might rally and renew the attack, if not in the daytime, during the night, when we should be unable to see them till they were close upon us. Our hope therefore was that the wind would again spring up, and that we should be able ...
— The Cruise of the Dainty - Rovings in the Pacific • William H. G. Kingston


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