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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tally \Tal"ly\, v. i. 1. To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match. I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with the channel. --Addison. Your idea . . . tallies exactly with mine. --Walpole. 2. To make a tally; to score; as to tally in a game. {Tally on} (Naut.), to man a rope for hauling, the men standing in a line or tail. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tally \Tal"ly\, n.; pl {Tallies}. [OE. taile, taille, F. taille a cutting, cut tally, fr tailler to cut, but influenced probably by taill['e], p. p. of tailler. See {Tailor}, and cf {Tail} a limitation, {Taille}, {Tallage}.] 1. Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept. Note: In purshasing and selling, it was once customary for traders to have two sticks, or one stick cleft into two parts and to mark with a score or notch, on each the number or quantity of goods delivered, -- the seller keeping one stick, and the purchaser the other Before the use of writing, this or something like it was the only method of keeping accounts; and tallies were received as evidence in courts of justice. In the English exchequer were tallies of loans, one part being kept in the exchequer, the other being given to the creditor in lieu of an obligation for money lent to government. 2. Hence any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate. 3. One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate. They were framed the tallies for each other --Dryden. 4. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as to make or earn a tally in a game. 5. A tally shop. See {Tally shop}, below. {Tally shop}, a shop at which goods or articles are sold to customers on account, the account being kept in corresponding books, one called the tally, kept by the buyer, the other the counter tally, kept by the seller, and the payments being made weekly or otherwise by agreement. The trade thus regulated is called tally trade --Eng. Encyc. {To strike tallies}, to act in correspondence, or alike. [Obs.] --Fuller. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tally \Tal"ly\, adv [See {Tall}, a.] Stoutly; with spirit. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: tally n 1: a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely; "the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th" or "their first tally came in the 3rd inning" [syn: {run}] 2: a bill for an amount due [syn: {reckoning}] 3: the act of counting [syn: {count}, {counting}, {numeration}, {enumeration}, {reckoning}] v 1: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check" [syn: {match}, {fit}, {correspond}, {check}, {jibe}, {gibe}, {agree}] [ant: {disagree}] 2: gain points; "The home team scored many times" [syn: {score}, {hit}, {rack up}] 3: keep score, as in games [syn: {chalk up}] 4: determine the sum of "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town" [syn: {total}, {tot}, {tot up}, {sum}, {sum up}, {summate}, {tote up}, {add}, {add together}, {add up}]
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