ally

To unite or form a connection between (people or things), as between families by marriage, or between states by confederacy, league, or treaty.

Theſe three did loue each other dearely well, / And with ſo firme affection were allyde, / As if but one ſoule in them all did dvvell, / VVhich did her povvre into three parts diuyde; […]

[W]hen hee's remou'd, your Highneſſe / VVill take againe your Queene, as yours at firſt, / Euen for your Sonnes ſake, and thereby for ſealing / The Iniurie of Tongues, in Courts and Kingdomes / Knovvne, and ally'd to yours.

Chiefly followed by to or with: to connect or form a relation to (someone or something) by similarity in features or nature.

Yes in good ſooth, the vice is of a great kindred; it is vvell allied, but it is impoſſible to extirpe it quite, Frier, till eating and drinking be put dovvne.

Great VVits are ſure to Madneſs near alli'd; / And thin Partitions do their Bounds divide: […]

To join or unite (oneself or itself) against, with, etc., someone or something else.

To be ſhort, hauing thus ingrafted them into the body of his [God's] Sonne, he ioyneth and allieth him ſelfe to them, he maketh him ſelfe one with them, maketh them his children and heyres, partakers of his immortalitie and glorie, and all this he worketh by the inward vertue of his holy Ghost, […]

[W]e have ſo many of our firſt Titled Families vvho have ally'd themſelves to Trade, (vvhoſe Inducements vvere Money only) that it ceaſes to be either a VVonder as to the Fact, or a Diſgrace to the Honour.

Chiefly followed by with: to enter into an alliance or unite for a common aim.

[A]ftervvards he [Constantine the Great] allied vvith Licinius, and gave him his Siſter in marriage, and acknovvledged him his Colleague in the Empire.

Whatever injuries […] the Athenians have done me I forgive. […] If they will ally with me, rebuild the temples I have burnt.

A person who co-operates with or helps another; an associate; a friend.

[N]o attempt is made to call in God to their reſcue, as if he vvere an idle unconcern'd ſpectator of humane affairs, or ſo inconſiderable an ally, as not to be vvorth the care of engaging him on their ſide.

The rights of the ſeven Electors were ſupported by all the deſcendants and allies of their powerful families, who ſhared in the ſplendor and influence, which they enjoyed by this diſtinguiſhing privilege.

A person who co-operates with or helps another; an associate; a friend.

I’m glad you want to be a better ally to the disabled.

A person, group, state, etc., which is associated or united by treaty with another for a common (especially military or political) purpose; a confederate.

The two countries were allies in World War I.

To be ſo ſcornefull to your alye⸝ / Your counſeyle was not worth a flye.

Something regarded as connected with or related to another thing by similarity in features or nature.

the pretty Pansy then Ile tye / Like Stones some Chaine inchasing, / And next to them their neere Alye, / The purple Violet placing.

The Aleptick art, and, its neereſt ally, Medicine, are deſign'd for the cure of bodies, reducing the faculties to the beſt harmony; […]

Something regarded as connected with or related to another thing by similarity in features or nature.

The order of Gruiformes includes cranes and their allies.

Procyonids (raccoons and their allies), a group of North American origin, are first recorded in South America in a level immediately below a unit dated at 6.0 million years.

Alternative spelling of alley (“a glass marble or taw”).