rally 
They rallied round their flags, and renewed the assault. 
The Century, XXIX. 297. 
2. To come into renewed energy or action; ac- 
quire new or renewed strength or vigor; un- 
dergo restoration or recovery, either partial or 
complete : as, the market rallied from its de- 
pression ; the patient rallied about midnight. 
Innumerable parts of matter chanced then to rally to- 
gether and to form themselves into this new world. 
Tillotson. 
Catholicism had rallied, and had driven back Protestant- 
ism even to the German Ocean. 
Macatday, Von Ranke's Hist. Popes. 
rally 1 (ral'i), n. ; pi. rallies (-iz). [< rattyl, v.] 
1. A rapid or ardent reunion for effort of any 
kind; a renewal of energy in joint action; a 
quick recovery from disorder or dispersion, as 
of a body of troops or other persons. 2. 
Theat., specifically, the general scramble or 
chase of all the players in a pantomime; a 
mele'e of pantomimists, as at the end of a 
transformation scene. 
The last scene of ail, which in modern pantomime fol- 
lows upon the shadowy chase of the characters called the 
rally. Kncyc. Brit., XVIII. 216. 
3. In lawn-tennis, the return of the ball over 
the net from one side to the other for a number 
of times consecutively. 4. A quick recovery 
from a state of depression or exhaustion; re- 
newal of energy or of vigorous action: return 
in disease, trade, active exertion of any kind, 
etc.: as, a rally in the course of a disease; a 
ratty in prices. 
The two stand to one another like men ; rally follows 
rally in quick succession, each flghting as if he thought 
to ilnish the whole thing out of hand. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, ii. 5. 
rally 2 (ral'i), '.; pret. and pp. rallied, ppr. ral- 
lying. [< F. raider, rail: see rail 6 .] f. trans. 
To attack with raillery; treat with jocose, sa- 
tirical, or sarcastic pleasantry; make merry with 
in regard to something; poke fun at; quiz. 
Strephon had long confess'd his amorous pain, 
Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain. 
Gay, The Fan, i. 40. 
Snake has just been rallying me on our mutual attach- 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, i. 1. 
494 
the head of the pile : same as monkey, X. (d) The piston 
in the large cylinder of a hydraulic press, (e) A hooped 
spar used in ship-building for moving timbers by a jolt- 
ramble 
A brancher, n ramage hawke. 
ing blow on the end. (/) In metal-working, a steam-ham- 
mer used in forming a bloom. 
2. A steam ship of war armed at the prow be- 
low the water-line with a heavy metallic beak 
Ram. a, bow-rudder. 
to or toward the prior or normal condition, as similar object against; batter: 'as the two ves- 
^o *;,, ,.*: * ...... ,^_j 8e , g tried to fam each other _ 2 To force .jj. 
drive down or together: as, to ram down a car- 
tridge; to ram a charge; to ram piles into the 
earth. 
Cotgrave. 
Nor must you expect from high antiquity the distinc- 
tions of eyes and ramage hawks. 
Sir T. Browne, Misc. Tracts, v. 
Hence 2. Wild or savage ; untamed. 
Longe ye gan after hym abydc, 
Cerching, enquering in wodes ramage, 
A wilde swine chasing at that houred tyde. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 527. 
Ellis he is not wise ne sage, 
No more than is a gote ramage. 
Rom. of the Rose, 1. 5384. 
Yet If she were so tickle as ye would take no stand so 
ramage as she would be reclaimed with no leave. 
Greene, Gwydonius (1593). (Halliwell.) 
Also ramish, rammish. 
H. n. 1. The branching of trees or plants; 
branches collectively. 2. The warbling of 
birds among branches ; bird-song. 
When immelodions winds but made thee [a lute) move, 
And birds their ramage did on thee bestow. 
Drwmmond, Sonnet*, it 10. 
3. A branch of a pedigree ; lineage ; kindred. 
Cotgrave. 4. Courage. Prompt. Parv., p. 422. 
'. ramage'-'t, n. Same as rummage. 
ramagioust (ra-ma'jus), a. [< ME. ramai/onx, 
ramagious. < ramage, wild: see ramage 1 .] Un- 
^ ; tamed; wild. Coles, 1717. 
ram, drive); from the noun: see ram 1 ,' n.] l[ ramal (ra'mal), a. [< NL. 'ramalis, < L. ramus, a 
trans. 1. To strike with a ram ; drive a ram or branch: see ramus.] 1. In hot., of or belonging 
to a branch ; growing or originatingon a branch ; 
rameal. 2. In anat. and zool., pertaining to 
a ramus ; of the character of a ramus : as, the 
ramal part of the jaw-bone. 
Ramalina (ram-a-li'na), . [NL. (Acharius), 
< L. ramale, twigs, shoots, < ramus,* branch: 
or spur, intended to destroy an enemy's ship 
by the force of collision. The beak Is often so far 
independent of the vital structure of the ship that, in the 
event of a serious collision, it may be carried away with- 
out essential injury to the ship to which It belongs. See 
also cuts under beak. Hydraulic ram. See hydraulic. 
ram, bore or drive in (> Dan. ramme, hit, strike, 
Somewhat of trepidation might be observed in his man- 
ner as he rammed down the balls. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 143. 
3. To fill or compact by pounding or driving. 
iMdy Ijen. No man shall ever come within my gates 
Men. Fm. Wilt thou ram up thy porch-hold? 
Marston and Barlated, Insatiate Countess, 1. 
A Ditch 
ramm'd to 
see ramus.] A genus of crustaceous lichens of 
the tribe Parmeliacei and family Usneei. The 
thallus Is fruticulose or finally pendulous, mostly com- 
pressed or at length subfoliaceons ; the apothecia are 
scutellifonn ; the spores are ellipsoid or oblong, bllocu- 
lar, and colorless. Jl. tcojndorvm furnishes a dye com- 
parable with archil. 
. . . was filled with some sound materials, and ramasst (ra-mas'), r. t. [< V . ramasser, bring to- 
make the foundation solid gether, gather, < re-, again, + amasser, heap up : 
^rfc,*/,, Ancient Coin,, p. 76. see am,,*,.] To bring together; gather up; 
ment. 
=8: 
4. To stuff as if with a ram; cram. 
By the Lord, a buck-basket ! rammed me in with foul 
unite. 
And when they have ramast many of several kindes and 
Banter etc rsee 
' * 
' " Z> 
intrans. To use pleasantry or satirical 
merriment. 
Juvenal has railed more wittily than Horace has rallied. 
Dryden, Orig. and Prog, of Satire. 
This gentleman rallies the best of any man I know ; 
for he forms his ridicule upon a circumstance which you 
are in your heart not unwilling to grant him : to wit, that 
you are guilty of an excess in something which is in itself 
laudable. Steele, Spectator, No. 422. 
rally 2 (ral'i), n. [< rfl//// 2 , v.] An exercise of 
good humor or satirical merriment. [Bare.] 
rallyingly (ral'i-ing-li), adv. In a rallying, 
bantering, or quizzical manner. [Bare.] 
"What! tired already, Jacob's would-be successor?" 
asks she rallyingly. R. Brouyhton, Doctor Cupid, ix. 
rallying-point (ral'i-ing-point), . A place, 
person, or thing at or about which persons rally, 
or come together for action, 
ralph (ralf), n. [Appar. from the personal 
name Ralph.] 1. An alleged or imagined evil 
spirit who does mischief in a printing-house. 
[Printers' slang, Bug.] 2. A familiar name 
of the raven, Corvus corax. 
ralstonite (ral'ston-lt), . [After J. Grier 
Ralston, of Norristown, Pennsylvania.] A flu- 
shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins. tastes, according to the appetite of those they treat thev 
Shak., M. W. of W., Hi. 5. 90. open one vessel, and then another. 
Comical Hist, of the World in the Moon (1659). (HalliweU.) 
ramastrumt (ra-mas 'trum), n. ; pi. ramastra 
(-tra). [NL., < L. ramus, a branch, + dim. -as- 
ter.] In bot., one of the secondary petioles, or 
petiolules, of compound leaves. Lindley. 
They ramme in great piles of woode, which they lay very 
deep. Cort/at, Crudities, I. 206. 
Do not bring your *sop. your politician, unless you can 
ram up his mouth with cloves. 
B. Jonson, Poetaster, iii. 1. 
II .intrans. To beat or pound anything, in Kamayana (ra-ma'ya-na), n. [Skt.Rdmdyana, 
any of the transitive senses of ram. 
So was it impossible that the wals of lericho should fall 
downe, being neither vndermined nor yet rammed at with 
engines. HaHuyt's Voyages, II. 184. 
Finding that he could do no good by ramming with 
logs of timber, he set one of the gates on fire. 
Bacon, Hist Hen. VII. 
With all the watchfulness and all the skill in the world, 
it would be futile to attempt to pass through the real ice- ramDaae (ram bad), n. 
pack without a ship built for ramming. 
Schley and Soley, Rescue of Oreely, p. 160. 
ram 3 (ram), a. [< Icel. ramr, strong (ramliga, 
strongly), = Sw. ram, strong, perfect, mere 
< Kama (see def. ) + ayana, a going, course, pro- 
gress, expedition, < i, go: see go.] The name 
of one of the two great epic poems of ancient 
India, the other being the Mahabharata. Itgives 
the history of Rama, especially of his expedition through 
the Deccan to Ceylon, to recover, by the aid of the monkey- 
god Hanuman, his wife Sita, carried away thither by Ra- 
vana. 
[< F. rambatle, "the 
bend or wale of a gaily" (Cotgrave), also ram- 
bate; cf. Pg. ar-rombada, a platform of a gal- 
ley.] A'aiit., the elevated platform built across 
the prow of a galley for boarding, etc. 
(en ram bonde, 'a perfect boor'), = Dan. ram. ram.Deh(ram'be),n. [Said to be connected with 
sharp, acrid, rank, mere (ramjydsl; 'pure Jut- 
ish').] 1. Strong; as a prefix, very: used as 
a prefix in ramshackle, rumbustious, etc. 2. 
Strong-scented; stinking: as, ram as a fox. 
Latham. 
ram 1 
ram, ramm, rom; = D. ram = MLG. LG. ram 
= OHG. ram, ram mo, MHG. ram, G. ramm, a 
ram, male sheep. Hence r<ra 2 . Cf. ram'4.] The 
male of the sheep, Ovis aries, and other ovine 
madan, the name of the 9th month of the Moslem 
year, < rained (ramad), be heated or hot.] The 
ninth month of the Mohammedan year, and the 
period of the annual thirty days' fast or Moham- 
., 
quadrupeds ; a tup. See cuts under Ovis and medan Lent, rigidly observed daily from dawn raTt .i.i / 
uadricornoiis until when all 
Malay rambutan, < rambut, hair: see rambutan.] 
The fruit of a middle-sized tree, Baccaurea sa- 
nida, of the Euphorbiacese, found in Malacca, 
Burma, etc. The fruit is globose, half an inch long, 
yellowish in color, several-celled, with a pleasant subacid 
pulj). 
[Also remberge; < 
obscure.] A long, nar- 
ad easily managed, for- 
merly used on the Mediterranean. 
By virtue thereof, through the retention of some aerial 
gusts, are the huge ramberges, mighty gallions, &c., launch- 
ed from their stations. 
Ozett, tr. of Rabelais, iii. 51. (Hares.) 
quadricornous The Ram, Aries, one of the signs and 
constellations of the zodiac. See Aries. 
ram 2 (ram), n. [< ME. raj, ramme, < AS. ram, 
ramm = D. ram, m., = MHG. G. ramme, f., a 
battering-ram; orig. a particular use of ram 1 , 
in allusion to the way a ram uses his head in 
fighting.] 1. An instrument for battering, 
until sunset, when all restrictions are removed. 
The lunar reckoning of the Mohammedan calendar brings 
its recurrence about eleven days earlier each year, so that 
it passes through all the seasons successively in a cycle 
of about thirty -three years ; but it is supposed that when 
it was named it was regularly one of the hot months, 
through lunisolar reckoning. The close of the fast is fol- 
lowed by the three days' feast called the Lesser Bairam. 
crushing, butting, or driving by impact. Specifl ramageH (ram'aj), a. and H. [I. a. < ME. ram- 
cally (o) Same as battering-ram. 
Bring up your rams, 
And with their armed heads make the fort totter. 
Fletcher, Bonduca, iv. 4. 
(6) A solid pointed projection or beak jutting from the 
bow of a war-vessel, used both in ancient and in recent 
times for crushing in an enemy's vessel by being driven 
against it. See def. 2, and cut under embvlon. (c) The 
heavy weight of a pile-driving machine, which falls upon 
age,< OF. ramage, of or belonging to branches, 
wild, rude, < LL. *ramaticus, of branches, < ra- 
mus, a branch : see ramus. II. . < OF. ramage, 
branches, branching, song of birds on the 
branches, etc., < LL. "ratnuticum, neut. of 'rti- 
maticus, of branches: see I.] I. a. 1. Hav- 
ing left the nest and begun to sit upon the 
branches: said of birds. 
. . v. i. ; pret. and pp. rambled, 
ppr. rambling. [An altered form (with dissimi- 
lation of mm to mb) of dial, rammle, < ME. 
"ramelen, freq. of rumen, E. dial, rame, roam, 
ramble: see roam.] 1. To roam or wander 
about in a leisurely manner; go from point to 
point carelessly or irregularly; rove: as, to 
ramble about the city or over the country. 
Bold Robin Hood he would ramble away. 
Robin Hood and the Ranger (Child's Ballads, V. 207). 
My first Entrance upon this Rambling kind of Life. 
Dampitr, Voyages, II., Pref. 
2. To take a wavering or wandering course; 
proceed with irregular turns, windings, or 
transitions; show a lack of definite direction 
or arrangement: as, a rambling path or house; 
