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