Tally

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Stoutly; with spirit.

II. Tally ·noun A tally shop. ·see Tally shop, below.

III. Tally ·noun One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.

IV. Tally ·noun To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.

V. Tally ·vi To make a tally; to Score; as, to tally in a game.

VI. Tally ·noun A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game.

VII. Tally ·noun To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit.

VIII. Tally ·vi To be fitted; to Suit; to Correspond; to Match.

IX. Tally ·noun Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate.

X. Tally ·noun 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.

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