Definition of rally

• v. t. - To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
• v. i. - To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
• v. i. - To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
• v. i. - To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
• n. - The act or process of rallying (in any of the senses of that word).
• n. - A political mass meeting.
• v. t. - To attack with raillery, either in good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire.
• v. i. - To use pleasantry, or satirical merriment.
• n. - Good-humored raillery.