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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tally  \Tal"ly\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Tallied};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Tallying}.]  [Cf.  F.  tialler  to  cut.  See  {Tally},  n.] 
  1.  To  score  with  correspondent  notches;  hence  to  make  to 
  correspond;  to  cause  to  fit  or  suit. 
 
  They  are  not  so  well  tallied  to  the  present 
  juncture.  --Pope. 
 
  2.  (Naut.)  To  check  off  as  parcels  of  freight  going  inboard 
  or  outboard.  --W.  C.  Russell. 
 
  {Tally  on}  (Naut.),  to  dovetail  together. 




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