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Tally [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Stoutly; with spirit.

Tally [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A piece of wood on which notches or scores are cut, as the marks of number. In purchasing and selling, it is 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 are received as evidence in courts of justice. In the English exchequer are 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. One thing made to suit another.

3. They were framed the tallies for each other.

Tally [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To be fitted; to suit; to correspond.

2. I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with the channel.

Tally [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To score with correspondent notches; to fit; to suit; to make to correspond.

2. They are not so well tallied to the present juncture.

3. In seamanship, to pull aft the sheets or lower corners of the main and fore-sail.

Tally [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Stoutly; with spirit.

Tally [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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.

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.

6. To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit.

7. To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.

Tally [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match.

2. To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game.

Tallyho [Interjection and noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds.

2. A tallyho coach.

Tallying [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Fitting to each other; making to correspond.

2. Agreeing; corresponding.

3. Hauling aft the corners of the main and fore-sail.

Tallying [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Tallyman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who sells for weekly payment.

2. One who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks.

Tallyman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks.

2. One who keeps a tally shop, or conducts his business as tally trade.

Tallymen [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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