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English Dictionary: tally by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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"; "their first tally came in the 3rd inning"
    Synonym(s): run, tally
  2. a bill for an amount due
    Synonym(s): reckoning, tally
  3. the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order; "the counting continued for several hours"
    Synonym(s): count, counting, numeration, enumeration, reckoning, tally
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"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"
    Synonym(s): match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree
    Antonym(s): disaccord, disagree, discord
  2. gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season"
    Synonym(s): score, hit, tally, rack up
  3. keep score, as in games
    Synonym(s): tally, chalk up
  4. determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"
    Synonym(s): total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up
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[82], 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.
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