tallyn.¹

Brit.

/ˈtali/, U.S.

/ˈtæli/

Forms: Middle English–1500s taly(e, 1500s tallye, tallee, tale, 1500s–1600s talie, tallie, talle, 1600s–1800s talley, 1500s– tally.

Etymology: In 15th cent. talye = Anglo-Norman (14th cent.) tallie = Anglo-Latin tālea , tālia , tallia , in same sense, Latin tālea , cutting, rod, stick. The doublet taille , taile , tail n.², < French taille, was in earlier use, and did not become obsolete till 17th cent.

a. A stick or rod of wood, usually squared, marked on one side with transverse notches representing the amount of a debt or payment. The rod being cleft lengthwise across the notches, the debtor and creditor each retained one of the halves, the agreement or tallying of which constituted legal proof of the debt, etc. Cf. tail n.² 4.

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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > arithmetical instrument > tally or reckoning stick

stick?c1430

tallyc1440

score1565

nick-stick1658

tally-stick1830

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > tally

tailstick1235

taila1325

white stick?c1430

senyec1440

tallyc1440

chalka1529

tally-stick1830

tally-board1849

chalk-score1867

1189 Gervase of Canterbury Op. Hist. Aug. (Rolls) I. 453 Videlicet ut conventus Monachos tres vel quatuor ad custodiendas villas ordinaret, qui redditibus omnibus thesaurariis a conventu constitutis per taleas responderent.

1203 in Placit. Abbrev. (1811) 38/2 Eustacius..inde producit sectam et talliam ostendit quam fecerunt.

1321–2 Rolls of Parl. I. 401/1 Illoques pristrent des biens..pur lour sustenaunce saunz paiement fere ou tallie al gardeyn du dit leu.]

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 486/1 Taly, or talye,..talia, tallia.?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors vi. sig. B8 She shal not haue hir redy mony neyther, but a taly.1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Talye or tale vsed in receypte, tessera,..tesserula,..dimin. a lyttle or shorte tallye.a1628 J. Preston New Covenant (1634) 323 There is a law in the mind within, answerable to the law of God without;..it answers as Tallie answers to Tallie.1690–1700 Order of Hospitalls sig. Hii The Tallyes of the same Baker and Bruer shalbe in the custodie and keping of the Thresorer.1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 606/1 Harry, who ought to have minded the Tallies of the milk-score.1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ xiv It is like comparing the two parts of a cloven tally.1881 C. Whitehead Hops 62 In some cases the very old fashioned method prevails of cutting notches upon wooden tallies, one part kept by the picker, the counterpart by the measurer.

b. Such a cloven rod, as the official receipt formerly given by the Exchequer for a tax, tallage, etc. paid, or in acknowledgement of a loan to the sovereign.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > receipt > types of

bill of lading1599

note1601

bill of loading1626

tally1626

bank receipt1699

subscription receipt1720

treasury certificate1791

warrant1825

tally of sol1843

stock receipt1901

1166 Pipe Rolls 12 Hen. II (1888) 2 Et x. li. in 11 talliis.

1178 Dialogus de Scaccario v Quid ad factorem talearum.

1284 Provis. Exch. (St. Rec. Comm. I. 69/1) Omnes illi qui habent tallias de scaccario de debitis suis vel antecessorum suorum.]

1626 King Charles I in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 264 Acquittances to be given you, which shall be your warrant for striking tallies and for repayment hereafter.

1633 tr. Henry Marlborough Chron. Ireland 208 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland Calwagh burnt all the rolles and tallyes of that countie.

1697 J. Pollexfen Disc. Trade & Coyn 70 When any Tax or Imposition is granted by Parliament, Tallies, Exchequer Notes or Bills, issued out upon the same, for the supplying of the Government with Ready Money till the Duties be paid.

1697 London Gaz. No. 3328/4 Lost..a Talley of 300 l. on Wines and Tobacco, Dated the 11th of March, 1695, No. 2329.

1738 Hist. View Court of Exchequer v. 91 To pay in their Rents into the Exchequer, and take Tallies from thence.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 385 In 1696 tallies had been at forty, and fifty, and sixty per cent. discount, and bank notes at twenty per cent.

1847 J. Francis Hist. Bank Eng. iv. 59 Tallies lay bundled up like Bath faggots in the hands of brokers, and stock-jobbers.

1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon (at cited word) The use of tallies in the Exchequer was abolished by 23 Geo. III c. 82, and the old tallies were ordered to be destroyed by 4 & 5 Wm. IV c. 15.

1892 W. R. Anson Law & Custom of Constit. II. vii. ii. §1. 310 In 1834..orders were given to destroy the tallies. They were used as fuel in the stoves which warmed the Houses of Parliament; they overheated the flues, and burned down the Houses.

†c. tally of pro (i.e. pro, for or in favour of some one), tally of sol (i.e. solutum, paid): see quot. 1843¹. Obsolete.

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > other promissory notes or bills

warrant1433

assignmentc1460

policy1623

navy bill1679

redraft1682

tally of pro1691

bank bill1694

bank seal bill1696

chequer-bill1697

assignation1704

chequer-note1705

mint bill1707

transport debenture1707

transport-bill1710

loan-bill1722

treasury note1756

tin bill1778

treasury-bill1798

rescription1800

short bill1808

treasury-warrant1834

sight bill1853

short-paper1912

treasuries1922

T.B.1936

T.D.R.1948

T-Bill1982

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > receipt > types of

bill of lading1599

note1601

bill of loading1626

tally1626

bank receipt1699

subscription receipt1720

treasury certificate1791

warrant1825

tally of sol1843

stock receipt1901

1691 W. Lowndes Acct. Revenue Eng. (MS.) 88 The Tally of Pro called also the Tally of Assignement Imports on the same Stick both a Receipt and payment.

1696 London Gaz. No. 3157/4 Lost..a Tally of Pro, dated the 18th of May 1695, in the Name of John Richards, Esq; for 300 l. struck on the Commissioners of His Majesty's Hereditary and Temporary Revenues of Excise.

1696 London Gaz. No. 3244/4 Lost a Talley of 100 l. upon the Temporal Excise, struck the 5th of Aug. 1696, pro Edvardo Nicholas.

1697 London Gaz. No. 3308/4 Lost.., a Talley of Pro No. 90. struck Aug. 6, 1696, in the Name of Edward Nicholas Esq; for 100 l. in part of 35000 l. by him Lent the 2d of July, 1696, upon the Hered' and Temp' Excise.

1703 London Gaz. No. 3933/4 The Tallies of Pro, levied upon the Surplus of the Duties on Malt.

1843 4th Rep. Deputy Keeper App. ii. 166 The Tally of Sol..whereon the word sol was written, to show that the money..had been paid into the Exchequer.

1843 4th Rep. Deputy Keeper App. ii. 166 The Tally of Pro..operated as a modern cheque on a banker, being given forth in payment from the Exchequer, as a charge upon some public accountant, for him to pay the sum expressed thereon, out of the revenues in his hands.

1892 W. R. Anson Law & Custom of Constit. II. vii. ii. §1. 310 The payer of money into the Exchequer received a tally, or one half of a notched stick split down the middle... The other half was kept at the Exchequer... The first sort of tally was called a Tally of Sol, the second a Tally of Pro.

d. transferred. Any tangible means of recording a payment or amount.

1874 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. (ed. 4) ii. x. 256 Each customer, when he makes a purchase, receives certain tin tickets or tallies which record the amount of his purchases.

a. The record of an amount due; a score or shot, an account. Also, the record of a number.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun]

accountc1300

counta1350

scorea1400

audit?1550

tally1580

state1582

memorandum1583

ticket1632

tick1681

a/c1736

financial statement1789

balance sheet1838

tab1889

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > receipt

acquittance1394

quittancea1400

quietus est1427

bill of receipt1434

bill of payment1465

quietus1540

tally1580

receipt1583

counter-bill1598

voucher1696

the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > mark made to keep score or record

nick?a1450

notch1565

chalk1674

tally1951

1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 70 In buieng of drinke, by the firkin or pot, The tallie ariseth, but hog amendes not.

1828 Marly: Planter's Life in Jamaica 55 Keep tally of their number.

1833 H. Martineau Brooke & Brooke Farm (ed. 3) vii To measure the milk and keep the tally.

1951 ‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids xi. 201 He had taken a tally of the livestock and the number of blind among it.

1976 H. Wilson Governance of Brit. iii. 55 The prime minister usually keeps a tally of those for and against.

†b. Nautical. petty tally, a petty account kept of a ship's provisions, originally of a certain portion; hence transferred provisions. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > [noun] > supplied to sailors

petty tally1626

the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > [noun] > supplied to sailors > account recording

petty tally1626

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship's papers > [noun] > account of provisions

petty tally1626

1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 39 How to keepe his..petty tally.

1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 41 There is neither..Grocer, Poulterie..nor Butchers shop and therefore the vse of this petty tally is necessary.

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xv. 74 A Commander at Sea should doe well..to consider..how to..prouide his petty Tally.

a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) vi. 519/2 Beer, Cask, Bread, and Petty-Talley..12l.

1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Petty-Tally, in Navigation is a competent proportion of edible and potable commodities in a Ship, according to the number of the Ships company.

1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict.

1849 in J. Craig New Universal Dict.

†c. upon the tally: on credit, ‘on tick’; by running up a score. Obsolete.

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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [adverb] > on credit

to fristc1440

on (also upon, of) trust1509

on (also upon) credit1560

in, upon, on (the) score1568

on time1628

on or upon (the) tick1642

upon the tally1807

on the nod1882

on the slate1909

on the cuff1927

on the knocker1934

1807 Sporting Mag. 29 185 To buy goods upon the Tally. (This term Tally, Mr. Garrow said, was not much known to the public.)

d. spec. in sporting use, a total score; also in Baseball, a single run.

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society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > gaining points > score

score1742

result1802

tally1856

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > base-playing or running > types of run

home run1856

tally1856

steal1867

homer1868

round trip1895

double steal1897

round-tripper1908

stroll1908

grand slam1920

dinger1968

1856 Spirit of Times 27 Dec. 276/3 One of these swiftly-delivered balls, when stopped by a skillful batsman, is sure to give the..striker time to go his rounds in safety, and score one tally as he reaches home.

1868 H. Chadwick Game of Baseball 46 Tally, this term applies to the total score of the single innings played, or of the even innings, or of the totals at the close of the match.

1875 Chicago Tribune 29 July 5/4 [They] were only two tallies behind at the beginning of the ninth inning.

1949 Marshfield (Wisconsin) News-Herald 19 July 9/1 Phil Satkowiak homered with none on in the fourth and his teammates added two more tallies.

1976 Liverpool Echo 23 Nov. 17/1 Ainsdale marksman Alex Blakeman took his tally to nine goals from his last four games with a brilliant hat-trick.

1977 Guernsey Weekly Press 21 July 8/5 They shocked their opponents by scoring four runs on four hits in the top of the first and..holding the red-and-blacks to only one tally in the bottom half.

e. Australian and New Zealand. (See quot. 1965.)

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > number sheared

tally1881

1881 A. Bathgate Waitaruna xii. 173 There was a rivalry among them [sc. shearers] as to who would have the biggest tally.

1908 D. Ferguson Bush Life (ed. 4) v. 39 Not only did his tallies of 170, 180, and even 190 place him beyond the reach of the keenest competitor, but the quality of his work was far above that of shearers in ordinary.

1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. vii. 170 The combined shearing tally was..115,000 sheep.

1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry ii. 31 Tally, a specialised alternative term for a number of sheep. Each shearer has his personal tally for..the day, progressively to date, and his final tally for the shed... At one time a notch was cut on a tally stick on the call of ‘tally’ or ‘hundred’, which indicated a hundred sheep counted.

3. figurative (from 1 and 2). Reckoning, score, account. Now rare.

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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun]

rimeeOE

talec950

numbrarya1382

compota1387

denumberment1455

numeration1533

magnitude1570

enumeration1577

annumeration1604

tally1614

denumeration1623

recensiona1638

connumeration1646

calculate1695

the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > summing or addition > result of

resultantc1450

sum1570

tally1614

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > an account or reckoning

accountc1300

taila1325

laya1400

tale1401

reckoningc1405

tailye1497

accounterc1503

lawing1535

note1587

post1604

chalking1613

tally1614

computus1631

tick1681

tab1889

slate1909

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. iii. §6. 255 Ordinarie occurrences, that are to be numbred by a shorter talie [than by the year].

1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer iv. 1807 Left they upon thy Tally all that sin.

1648 C. Walker Relations & Observ. ii. 96 He that hath a Tally of every mans faults but his own hanging at his Girdle.

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II xxxviii, in Poems (1878) III. 146 He threatened To weare it worthy, and a Tally make Of slaughter, to outvye his shop~board's Chalke.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk (1870) I. i. 14 It is stamped on his brain, and lives there thenceforward, a tally for nature, and a test of art.

1951 J. Agee Morning Watch ii. 61 Hell of a saint I'd make, he said to himself; and added with cold and level weary self-disgust to the tally of the sins he must soon confess, I swore in Lady Chapel in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament.

a. Each of the two corresponding halves or parts of anything; a thing, or part, that exactly fits or agrees with another thing or corresponding part; a counterpart; figurative an agreement, correspondence.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > [noun] > a complement or counterpart

fellowc1330

marrow1516

correlative1545

mate1578

counterpane1612

counterpart1635

correlate1643

tally1647

correspondent1650

complement1827

co-relative1864

opposite number1874

oppo1932

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [noun] > division into two equal parts > a half

halfc950

halfendealc1000

half-part1398

half-deal1399

mediety?1440

moiety1444

demi1501

demi-parcela1592

single1592

second1594

tally1647

'arf1854

half-value1903

1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 29 Whose Members being not Tallies, they'l not own Their fellowes at the Resurrection.

1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian v. 116 So suited in their minds and Persons, That they were fram'd the tallyes for each other.

1816 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 297 If histories so unlike..can..be brought to the same tally, no line of distinction remains between fact and fancy.

1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 266 The bit of which key is so cut or shaped as to form a complete tally with the interior machinery.

1906 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 207 Here he will find again the tally between proportion and thought.

b. to live (on) tally, to live in concubinage, to cohabit without marriage. slang.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [verb (intransitive)] > cohabit

to live together1483

adhere1525

cohabitc1530

to live in sin1838

to live (on) tally1864

shack1935

1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 253 Tally, ‘to live tally,’ to live in a state of unmarried impropriety.

1867 B. Brierley Traddlepin Fold 174 Aw'd advise thi t'live tally..if theaw con mak' it reet wi' some owd damsel.

1877 W. H. Thomson Five Years' Penal Servitude iii. 246 I never took to a moll except on tally.

1877 W. H. Thomson Five Years' Penal Servitude vi. 377 A man she was then living ‘tally’ with.

1890 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 10 297/2 To ‘live tally’ is quite a common expression amongst the working classes in Lancashire, as is also tally-woman.

1901 M. Peacock in Folk-Lore June 174 He had for years been ‘living tally’ with a woman—that is in cohabitation without marriage.

a. A number, group, series, lot, tale; esp. a certain number or group (of things or persons) taken as the unit of computation. Also, ‘a company or division of voters at an election’ ( Eng. Dial. Dict.): see quot. 1774.

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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > denomination

denominationc1430

tally1674

name1714

the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > result, sum

telc1000

tale?c1225

tailc1330

reckoningc1392

suma1400

aggregatec1443

count1483

sum total1549

total1557

computation1586

calculation1646

quotient1659

tally1674

amount1751

tot1755

summation1841

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > group

fleeta1400

congregation1526

batch1597

parcel1598

seta1616

group1705

lodge1737

groupment1837

klomp1853

tally1890

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 56 Every tally by which we tell things must be either even or odd.

1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 102 When they tone out their daily Tally of Psalms.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Wall Some Bricks..are broken, in every Load or 500 Bricks; and the Tally or Tale, is, for the most part,..too little.

1774 E. Burke Speech Concl. Poll in Wks. III. 16 Mr. Brickdale opened his poll, it seems, with a tally of those very kind of freemen, and voted many hundreds of them.

1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton (1878) xvii. 123 We told them off by tallies as they marched on board.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 June 14/1 Some few years ago..Victoria was well ahead of New South Wales in the tally of her people.

1889 19th Cent. Nov. 755 Though we had three deaths during the passage, as we also had three births, our tally remained correct.

1890 Science 12 Dec. 323 All the Indians..were drawn up in tallies, and arranged according to families.

1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Tally, a check account made by a person receiving goods;..used for the number of bricks or tons of other goods carried on canal boats and river barges.

b. spec. In market-gardening, Five dozen (cabbages, bunches of turnips, etc.).

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > sixty > sixty things, persons, etc.

threescorea1616

tally1851

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 92/1 I buy turnips by the ‘tally’. A tally's five dozen bunches.

1883 Daily News 6 Sept. 2/7 Cauliflowers, 5s. per tally.

1891 Times 28 Sept. 4/2 Cabbages, 1s. 6d. to 2s. 6d. per tally;..marrows, 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. per tally.

c. spec. In hop-picking, A specified number of bushels that have to be picked for one shilling: see quot. 1904, and cf. quot. 1881 at sense 1a.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > hop-picking > number of bushels per shilling payment

tally1868

1868 Derby Mercury 12 Feb. Back at the ‘tally’ to play your part.

1891 Sc. Leader 24 Sept. 7 A strike has occurred among the hop-pickers..owing to alleged ‘excessive measure and high tally’.

1904 Daily Chron. 29 Aug. 8/3 The pay is..at the rate of 1s. for a certain number of bushels, called the ‘tally’, which varies from five to eight or nine, according to the growth of the hops.

d. The last of a specified number forming a unit of computation, on the completion of which the tally-man calls ‘tally’ and notes it down.

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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > result, sum > signal of

numberc1300

sum totalc1450

tally1886

1886 P. Clarke ‘New Chum’ in Austral. (ed. 2) xii. 175 As a ‘hundred’ is called, one of us calls out ‘tally’, and cuts one notch in a stick.

1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) If the articles are counted singly, they are called out up to the nineteenth; but instead of..‘twenty’, the word tally is substituted; thus ‘eighteen, nineteen, tally’... In counting articles that can be lifted in groups the tale is thus made—‘five, ten, fifteen, tally’.

†6. A mark (such as the notch of a tally) representing a unit quantity, or a series or set of units.

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society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > [noun] > mark representing unit quantity

tally1719

1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 314 In Courts had all their Hearts desire, For ev'ry Kiss a Tally.

1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 264 He notcht his Arse with Tallies.

1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 44 Where chalky tallies yet remain in rows.

a. A distinguishing mark on a bale or case of merchandise, etc., corresponding to one in a list, for the purpose of comparison or identification; hence, a mark, label, ticket, or tab, used for this purpose, or to denote the weight and contents, etc.

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society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > mark of identification > [noun] > mark identifying goods

merchant mark1540

merchant's mark1557

shop mark1592

skin mark1703

brand1728

chop1828

trademark1839

tally1851

scribing1859

trade name1890

word mark1902

TM1961

UPC1974

countermark-

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xlii. 210 Tying a lettered, leathern tally round its neck.

1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) vi. §324 But the air is invisible; and it is not easily perceived how either marks or tallies may be put on it, that it may be traced.

1865 Morning Star 27 Jan. I entered the weights in the landing-book, and marked them in the tallies..and I saw a great number of the tallies afterwards put on the bales.

b. Coal Mining. (See quots.)

ΚΠ

1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Tally, a mark or number placed by a collier upon every tub of coals loaded... They are usually little bits of tin having a number stamped upon them.

1890 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 10 297/2 At many pits it is customary to send the tubs of coals to bank with tin tallies attached... This tally is so that the banksmen and weighmen may place the coals to the credit of the men working in the banks below, the banks and tallies bearing the same numbers.

c. spec. in Horticulture, A tab or label of wood, metal, etc., on which are inscribed the name, class, etc. of the plant or tree to which it is attached, or beside which it is stuck in the ground.

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > plant identification label

tally1822

naming-stick1824

1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening iii. iv. 1190 Every plant [in a Botanical Garden] ought to have its name painted on strong cast-iron talleys.

1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 17/1 Many different kinds of tally are used in gardens and arboretums, to bear either numbers referring to a catalogue, or the names of the plants near which they are placed.

1870 W. Thornbury Tour Eng. I. i. 23 The..gray stone, the tally to mark a seed plot in Death's neglected garden.

1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 234/2 Tallies of wood [in horticulture] should be slightly smeared with white paint and then written on while damp with a black-lead pencil.

d. A tie-label, tab, or tag for luggage, etc.

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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > labelling > [noun] > label, tag, or ticket

bill1474

schedule1523

label?1577

libel1603

tessera1656

check1812

price ticket1830

etiquette1831

sticker1862

tag1864

price tag1880

tab1883

tally1909

mailing label1959

swing-ticket1962

swing label1968

1909 Advt. Temple Tower Tallies, 1d. per packet, strung ready for use.

e. Nautical slang. (See quots 1929, 1946). Also cap-tally = tally ribbon n. at Compounds 3 below.

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the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun]

nameeOE

wordeOE

clepinga1300

namingc1300

neveningc1300

titlec1390

notea1393

stylec1400

calling?a1425

nomination?a1425

vocable1440

appellation1447

denomination?a1475

vocation1477

preface1582

prenomination1599

nomenclature1610

expressiona1631

denotation1631

appellative1632

compellation1637

denominate1638

nomenclation1638

nominance1642

titularity1643

entitlement1823

compellative1830

cognomen1852

tally1929

denotative1944

anthroponym1952

1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 138 Tally, a name or name-plate of any description.

1945 ‘Tackline’ Holiday Sailor i. 9 We queued-up before him to have our cap-tallies—not cap-ribbons, we now discovered—secured about our caps with the authentic sailor's-knot.

1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 172 Tally, a sailor's name is his ‘tally’—e.g. ‘Answer your tally!’

8. Used as = tail n.² 2b. Obsolete.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > specific tax in France

tailc1515

tallya1613

a1613 T. Overbury Obseruations Xvii. Prouinces (1626) 15 The Gentrie are the onely entire Body there, which participate with the Prerogatiues of the Crowne; for from it they receiue..supply to their estates, by Gouernments and Pensions, and freedome from Tallies vpon their owne Lands.

1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell xvii. 211 When one hath seene the Tally and taillage of France,..the Assise of Holland, the Gabels of Italy,..hee will blesse God, and love England better ever after.

Compounds

General attributive.

C1. Simple attributive and objective genitive, as (from 1a, 1b).

tally-broker n.

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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > use of bills of exchange > one dealing in bills of exchange > dealer in exchequer receipts

tally-broker1715

1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 154 Such a Money-Monger, such a Tally-Broker, and Cheater of the Publick.

tally-court n.

1684 E. Chamberlayne 2nd Pt. Present State Eng. (ed. 12) 105 In the Tally Court..the Tally-cutter attends.

tally-cutter n.

1684 E. Chamberlayne 2nd Pt. Present State Eng. (ed. 12) 105 In the Tally Cour..the Tally-cutter attends.

1786 St. Paper in Ann. Reg. 193/1 The tally writer..takes an account of the sum, and writes it on both sides of the tally delivered to him, with the sum cut upon it in notches by the tally-cutter.

tally-office n.

1631 S. D'Ewes Jrnl. Parl. (1783) 52 That unjust and rare recorde called Domesdei in the tallie-office of the Exchequer.

tally-stick n.

b. (From 2a, 2b, 2e.)

tally-book n.

1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry ii. 31 Tally book, the official record of what every man has shorn in each run of the day.

1972 T. A. Bulman Kamloops Cattlemen xxxi. 178 Our tally books showed that we were short a bull and six head of cattle.

tally-check n.

1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 10 Oct. 13/4 Rudely inscribed potsherds..tally-checks scrawled with entries of time-labour and food-wages.

tally-keeper n.

1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad v. 55 The tally-keeper..tallied one for the opposition in his book.

1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xix. 247 Ocher..threw up his office of tally-keeper.

tally-table n.

C2. In reference to the instalment or petty credit system (cf. 2c) worked by the tallyman n.

tally-business n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > selling by hire purchase

tally-trade1829

tally-business1851

1851Tally-business [see tally-master n.].

1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret II. viii. 153 You're not connected with—with the tally business, are you, sir?

tally-draper n.

tally-master n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > one who sells on hire purchase

tallyman1654

tallywoman1728

tally-master1851

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 383/2 The ‘travellers’..are occasionally shopmen, for a ‘large’ tally-master not unfrequently carries on a retail trade in addition to his tally-business.

tally-packman n.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 381/1 The pedlar or hawking tallyman travels for orders... The great majority of the tally-packmen are Scotchmen.

tally-room n.

tally-shop n.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 32/1 The poor,..pawnbrokers, loan-offices, tally-shops, dolly-shops, are the only parties who will trust them.

1870 Public Opinion 16 July [He] described from personal inspection the low quality of the provisions supplied in the tally-shops.

tally-system n.

1850 J. R. Planché Island of Jewels ii. i. 21 Is it all a trick, you make this mighty splash on, Or, is the tally system here in fashion?

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 372/2 Some had been unsuccessful as tallymen when shopkeepers, or travellers for tally-shops, and have resorted to hawking or street-trading,..blending the tally system with the simple rules of sale for ready money.

tally-trade n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > selling by hire purchase

tally-trade1829

tally-business1851

1829 W. Cobbett Advice to Young Men ii. §60 The ‘Tally-trade’, by which household goods, coals, clothing, all sorts of things, are sold upon credit, the seller keeping a tally, and receiving payment..little by little.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 383/1 Establishments, ‘doing largely’ in the tally-trade.

C3. Special combinations: See also tallyman n., woman n.

tally band n. Nautical = tally ribbon n. below.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [noun] > band > types of > bearing name of sailor's ship

cap-ribbon1917

tally ribbon1919

cap-tally1944

tally band1977

1977 Times 7 Jan. (Royal Navy Suppl.) p. ii/6 That dear little pancake hat with its silk tally band;..I believe that it was because of that little hat that I had joined the WRNS in the first place.

tally-board n. a board on which an account is notched or chalked; e.g. one on which the record of a weaver's work is kept ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > tally

tailstick1235

taila1325

white stick?c1430

senyec1440

tallyc1440

chalka1529

tally-stick1830

tally-board1849

chalk-score1867

1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. vii. 133 You have not got the tally board so completely in your hand, my friend.

tally card n. U.S. a scorecard.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > recording score > [noun] > scorecard

scoring-paper1840

scoring-book1845

scoring-card1845

score-paper1847

scorebook1851

scoring-sheet1851

score-sheet1859

scorecard1877

tally card1909

scoreline1969

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Tally card.

1928 Publishers' Weekly 14 July 172 Allied with these are tally cards, playing cards, novelties and party favors.

tally-clerk n. one who checks merchandise with a list in loading or discharging cargo; also (U.S.), one who assists in counting and recording votes.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > election officials

scrutator1618

scrutineer1682

scrutinator1691

returning officer1728

presiding officer1745

viander1751

warden1763

poll clerk1783

canvasser1792

polling clerk1833

tally-clerk1890

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > who load or unload > and check merchandise

tallyman1888

tally-clerk1890

1890 Daily News 13 Sept. 6/4 A large number of ships' tally clerks,..have not had a day's work for weeks.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 25 Feb. 2/1 There is a duplicate of this board, but on a small scale, placed on the desk of the tally-clerk, so that the record of the votes is constantly before his eyes.

tally desk n. Nautical a desk at which merchandise is checked.

ΚΠ

1899 C. J. C. Hyne Further Adventures Capt. Kettle ix. 166 He went up to the second mate at the tally-desk on the main deck below.

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tally-husband n. slang a man who ‘lives tally’ ( 4b) with a woman.

tally-mark n. = sense 7.

tally-pot n. a vessel in which records of a counting or voting are placed ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895).

tally ribbon n. Nautical a sailor's cap-ribbon bearing the name of his ship (cf. sense 7e above).

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [noun] > band > types of > bearing name of sailor's ship

cap-ribbon1917

tally ribbon1919

cap-tally1944

tally band1977

1919 W. Lang Sea-lawyer's Log 14 Those three caps, too, look very smart, with the neat, white canvas cover which we wear during the summer months, and the tally ribbon with its tricky little bow on the left side.

tally-room n. (Ireland) a committee-room at an election.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > committee room at election

tally-room1842

1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xvii The popular tunes..in the tally rooms, while the fellows are waiting to go up.

1910 Daily News 24 Jan. 8 Mr. Wood could neither show himself in the place nor get a tally-room, as they call their committee-rooms there [i.e. at Lisburn].

tally-sheet n. a score-sheet, esp. (U.S.) in recording votes.

ΚΠ

1889 Cent. Mag. Feb. 622/1 The growing disposition [in U.S.] to tamper with the ballot-box and the tally-sheet.

1893 Scribner's Mag. June 779/2 To call her attention to a tally-sheet, covering a period of three calendar months.

tally-shouter n. Mining see quot.

ΚΠ

1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Tally-shouter, one who shouts out the numbers on the tallies to the weigher.

tally-stick n. a stick used as or like a tally (sense 1).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > arithmetical instrument > tally or reckoning stick

stick?c1430

tallyc1440

score1565

nick-stick1658

tally-stick1830

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > tally

tailstick1235

taila1325

white stick?c1430

senyec1440

tallyc1440

chalka1529

tally-stick1830

tally-board1849

chalk-score1867

1830 Virginia Lit. Museum 27 Jan. 526/2 A ‘negro boy, with a talley stick was a statesman complete in his school’.

a1861 T. Winthrop Canoe & Saddle (1883) vii. 153 She could not tell how many [years], having dropped her tally-stick in the fire..that very day.

1895 W. J. Hoffman Beginnings of Writing 140 Several tribes of Indians, in California, employed a variety of tallysticks to record transactions in business.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 49 They hopefully notched away the moons on their tally~sticks.

tally-writer n. formerly, the clerk who wrote the description and amount of the payment on two opposite sides of the exchequer tallies.

ΘΠ

society > communication > record > written record > compiler or keeper of written records > [noun] > others

secretary14..

remembrancer1523

rapporteur1653

tally-writer1786

messenger1793

memorandist1866

toll-clerk1878

shorthand typist1901

progress clerk1916

filing clerk1922

secretary bird1969

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tallyv.¹

Brit.

/ˈtali/, U.S.

/ˈtæli/

Forms: see tally n.¹

Etymology: < tally n.¹ Compare also medieval Latin talliāre to cut (wood); also, to conform or cause to correspond in number or measure: see Du Cange. (Some of the uses may have been influenced by association with Latin tālis such, tālio giving like for like.)

I. Senses relating to reckoning or counting.

a. transitive †To notch (a stick) so as to make it a tally (obsolete); hence, to mark, score, set down or enter (a number, etc.) on or as on a tally; transferred to record, register.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > make or cut a tally

tail1377

tallyc1440

strike1626

the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] > record > by notches

scorec1386

tallyc1440

nick?1523

notch1573

strike1626

society > communication > record > pictorial, etc., records > [verb (transitive)]

nick?1523

notch1573

score1590

tallya1640

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 486/1 Talyyn, or scoryn' on taly, tallio, dico.

1632 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 94 M^rs Jennet Carrier had a knife in her hand,..to tally a sticke to shewe how many dishes full there were.

1633 J. Ford Broken Heart iv. i. sig. G2^v So prouident is folly in sad issue, That after-wit, like Bankrupts debts, stand tallyed Without all possibilities of payment.

a1640 W. Fenner Sacrifice of Faithful (1648) 53 There is not one of them that God tallies downe, or reckons for a praier.

1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 18 At every tenth Call, perhaps you may tally down a Sailor.

1890 Cent. Mag. June 205/2 These [field judges] measure and tally the trials of competitors in jumps, pole vaults [etc.].

b. spec. To identify, count, and enter each bale, case, article, etc. of a cargo or lot of goods in loading or discharging.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > [verb (transitive)] > identify and count each article, etc.

tally1812

1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs i. 7 Goods paying Duty by Tale are, at the delivery, to be tallied at 1, 10, 20, &c. according to the nature thereof.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Jan. 5/2 Upon the mates of ships..falls the bulk of the work and responsibility entailed in getting a ship ready to receive cargo, in ‘tallying’ the cargo, in preparing her to leave port [etc.].

1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 226 No pretence was made of tallying in the cargo.

c. To furnish (a bale of goods, etc.) with a tally or identifying label; to distinguish, mark, or identify by or as by a tally: see tally n.¹ 7.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > be distinctive mark on [verb (transitive)] > put identifying mark on > commercial goods

scribe1806

tally1837

trademark1859

badge1980

1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow xxxiv, in Metropolitan Apr. 385 Leaving his people to mark and tally the bales.

1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) vi. §332 We have tallied the air, and put labels on the wind.

1865 Morning Star 27 Jan. If a number of bales were tallied as having arrived by a vessel called the Onwards, the label with the mark ‘Onwards’ on it was taken off and another marked the ‘City of Dublin’ placed in its stead.

d. Sport (chiefly North American). To score (a run, goal, etc.).

(a) intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (intransitive)] > make points

score1844

tally1867

1867 Ball Players' Chron. 14 Nov. 2/4 Taylor took his first on a muff by Banker and tallied on passed balls.

1903 N.Y. Times 18 Aug. 5/2 The home players tallied only five times during the entire contest.

1931 Randolph Enterprise (Elkins, W. Va.) 9 July 5/3 The nine from Randolph had tallied five times in the same frame.

1947 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Nov. 12/2 The visitors tallied for the first time in the opening minutes of the game when Ann Worthington sent a hard shot into the corner of the cage.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 Feb. 17/2 Pit Martin also scored for a three-goal first period for Chicago and Wayne Maki tallied early in the second.

1974 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 13 Oct. C.2/3 Terell tallied on a two-yard run and took a pass from Jeff Starrett 70 yards for a second score.

(b) transitive.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (transitive)] > score

get1634

make1680

score1742

notch1836

steal1836

to put up1860

rattle1860

to put on1865

tally1875

net1907

to rack up1921

slam1959

1875 Chicago Tribune 24 Aug. 5/6 A furious overthrow by Beals at second..tallied three unearned runs.

1966 Telegraph (Brisbane) 22 Jan. 5/2 He started racing in November, and in five starts has tallied a win, second, and a third.

1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 6 July 1- c/6 The Angels tallied their fifth run in the third inning as Bob Brenly came on a Young single to short center.

a. To count or reckon up, to number.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)]

rimeeOE

arimec885

atellc885

talec897

i-telle971

tellOE

readc1225

reckon?c1225

aima1375

numbera1382

denumber1382

accounta1393

casta1400

countc1400

umberc1400

ascribe1432

annumerate?a1475

to sum upa1475

annumbera1500

ennumber1535

reckon?1537

tally1542

compute1579

recount1581

rate1599

catalogize1602

to add up1611

suma1616

enumeratea1649

numerate1657

to run up1830

to figure out1834

figure1854

to count up1872

enumer1936

1542 T. Becon Newe Pathway vnto Praier vi. sig. C.viij Some also vpon theyr bedes taly vp, I cannot tel howe many Lady Psalters.

1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. F.iiii ^v The first or the first couple hauing twelue sillables, the other fourteene, which versifyers call Powlters measure, because so they talle their wares by dosens.

1598 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 335 Two men, to serve..att the pitt, to take the reckoninges, the one..who doth tallee the horses.

1648 Bp. J. Hall Breathings Devout Soul iv. 5 I have not kept even-reckonings with thee; I have not justly tallied up thy inestimable benefits.

1660 Col. J. Okie's Lament. (single sheet) I..must now..Tally the Account of our State Stinking Beer.

1885 A. Munro Siren Casket (1889) 85 They anchor'd at morning to tally their spoil.

b. figurative. To reckon, estimate (with object clause). colloquial. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)]

talec897

ween971

takec1175

weigha1200

deem?c1225

judge?c1225

guessc1330

reta1382

accounta1387

aretc1386

assize1393

consider1398

ponder?a1400

adjudgec1440

reckonc1440

peisec1460

ponderate?a1475

poisea1483

trutinate1528

steem1535

rate?1555

sense1564

compute1604

censure1605

cast1606

cense1606

estimate1651

audit1655

state1671

balance1692

esteem1711

appraise1823

figure1854

tally1860

revalue1894

lowball1973

1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xix. 297 You can't hardly tally how she's coming out, because she isn't exactly a woman yet.

†3. intransitive. To deal on tally or credit; to open or have a credit account with any one. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > other trading methods > [verb (intransitive)] > deal on credit

tail1514

tally1596

1596 Foxe's Actes & Monuments (ed. 5) I. iv. 298/2 He was in great debt..driuen to tallie for his owne cates.

1724 J. Swift Let. to Mr. Harding 2 Several Gentlemen have been forced to Tally with their Workmen and give them Bits of Cards Sealed and Subscribed with their Names.

II. Senses relating to correspondence or agreement.

†4. transitive. figurative. To cause (things) to correspond or agree; to ‘match’; past participle matched, suited, adapted. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree, harmonize, or be congruous with [verb (transitive)] > bring into agreement or harmony

concile1398

commune1423

agree1532

concord1548

conciliate1573

square1578

concent1596

tally1607

to wind up1608

accommodate1609

adjust1611

conform1646

reconcilea1672

attune1744

harmonize1767

1607 Bp. J. Hall Holy Observ. 75 Morall Philosophie [teacheth] that tallying of iniuries is iustice: Diuinitie, that good must be returned for ill.

1716 J. Swift Let. 30 Aug. (2001) II. 176 They are not so well tally'd to the present juncture.

c1717 M. Prior Epitaph 16 They seem'd just tallied for each other.

1812 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 177 Peculiarly tallied in interests, by each wanting exactly what the other has to spare.

†5.

a. To compare, as tallies, for the purpose of verifying an account, etc. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > compare [verb (transitive)] > balance against

counterweighc1430

weigha1535

proportion1591

counterbalance1603

scalea1616

appoisea1670

counterpoise1685

tally1702

commeasure1849

benchmark1963

1702 London Gaz. No. 3827/4 These are to give Notice to all the Fortunate in Sydenham's Land-Lottery..to bring their Prize Tickets, in order to have the same Tallied.

1703 London Gaz. No. 3963/4 All Persons, whose Tickets in the late Land-Lottery have not been tallied and reported.

†b. figurative. To bring into comparison, compare.

ΚΠ

1773 J. Ross Fratricide (MS) vi. 478 What but a shadow is this mortal life When tally'd with eternity?

6. intransitive. To agree, as one half of a cloven tally with its fellow; to correspond or answer exactly; to accord, conform, fit. Const. †to (obsolete), with. (The chief current sense.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree/be in harmony/be congruous [verb (intransitive)] > exactly

jump1567

coincidate1657

coincide1705

tally1705

pary1716

1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 227 I found pieces of Tiles that exactly tally'd with the Channel.

1721 Coll. Polit. Lett. London Jrnl. 1720 64 The Courage and Understanding of her [the High Church's] Passive Sons Tally to each other.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. xii. 198 Neither shall I be ever able to comprehend how such an Animal [sc. Yahoo] and such a Vice [sc. pride], could tally together.

1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. 271 A Theory that does not exactly tally with fact.

1758 E. M. da Costa in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 229 The impressions of ferns, grasses, &c. are easily recognizable, they so minutely tally to the plants they represent.

1779 J. Moore View Society & Manners France (1789) I. xxiv. 188 High hills, whose opposite sides tally so exactly.

1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon II. 82 It tallies exactly with what the others have said.

III. (? Connected with tales n.)

7. transitive (?) To summon or empanel as a juryman.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [verb (transitive)] > empanel a jury > empanel as juryman

jure1598

tally1776

1776 in Stonehouse Axholme (1839) 145 None of the Lord's tenants, either freehold or copyhold, to be tallied out of the Manor, to the Assizes, Sessions, or Sheriff's Court.

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单词	tally
释义	tallyn.¹ Brit. /ˈtali/, U.S. /ˈtæli/ Forms: Middle English–1500s taly(e, 1500s tallye, tallee, tale, 1500s–1600s talie, tallie, talle, 1600s–1800s talley, 1500s– tally. Etymology: In 15th cent. talye = Anglo-Norman (14th cent.) tallie = Anglo-Latin tālea , tālia , tallia , in same sense, Latin tālea , cutting, rod, stick. The doublet taille , taile , tail n.², < French taille, was in earlier use, and did not become obsolete till 17th cent. 1. a. A stick or rod of wood, usually squared, marked on one side with transverse notches representing the amount of a debt or payment. The rod being cleft lengthwise across the notches, the debtor and creditor each retained one of the halves, the agreement or tallying of which constituted legal proof of the debt, etc. Cf. tail n.² 4. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > arithmetical instrument > tally or reckoning stick stick?c1430 tallyc1440 score1565 nick-stick1658 tally-stick1830 society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > tally tailstick1235 taila1325 white stick?c1430 senyec1440 tallyc1440 chalka1529 tally-stick1830 tally-board1849 chalk-score1867 1189 Gervase of Canterbury Op. Hist. Aug. (Rolls) I. 453 Videlicet ut conventus Monachos tres vel quatuor ad custodiendas villas ordinaret, qui redditibus omnibus thesaurariis a conventu constitutis per taleas responderent. 1203 in Placit. Abbrev. (1811) 38/2 Eustacius..inde producit sectam et talliam ostendit quam fecerunt. 1321–2 Rolls of Parl. I. 401/1 Illoques pristrent des biens..pur lour sustenaunce saunz paiement fere ou tallie al gardeyn du dit leu.] c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 486/1 Taly, or talye,..talia, tallia.?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors vi. sig. B8 She shal not haue hir redy mony neyther, but a taly.1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Talye or tale vsed in receypte, tessera,..tesserula,..dimin. a lyttle or shorte tallye.a1628 J. Preston New Covenant (1634) 323 There is a law in the mind within, answerable to the law of God without;..it answers as Tallie answers to Tallie.1690–1700 Order of Hospitalls sig. Hii The Tallyes of the same Baker and Bruer shalbe in the custodie and keping of the Thresorer.1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 606/1 Harry, who ought to have minded the Tallies of the milk-score.1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ xiv It is like comparing the two parts of a cloven tally.1881 C. Whitehead Hops 62 In some cases the very old fashioned method prevails of cutting notches upon wooden tallies, one part kept by the picker, the counterpart by the measurer. b. Such a cloven rod, as the official receipt formerly given by the Exchequer for a tax, tallage, etc. paid, or in acknowledgement of a loan to the sovereign. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > receipt > types of bill of lading1599 note1601 bill of loading1626 tally1626 bank receipt1699 subscription receipt1720 treasury certificate1791 warrant1825 tally of sol1843 stock receipt1901 1166 Pipe Rolls 12 Hen. II (1888) 2 Et x. li. in 11 talliis. 1178 Dialogus de Scaccario v Quid ad factorem talearum. 1284 Provis. Exch. (St. Rec. Comm. I. 69/1) Omnes illi qui habent tallias de scaccario de debitis suis vel antecessorum suorum.] 1626 King Charles I in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 264 Acquittances to be given you, which shall be your warrant for striking tallies and for repayment hereafter. 1633 tr. Henry Marlborough Chron. Ireland 208 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland Calwagh burnt all the rolles and tallyes of that countie. 1697 J. Pollexfen Disc. Trade & Coyn 70 When any Tax or Imposition is granted by Parliament, Tallies, Exchequer Notes or Bills, issued out upon the same, for the supplying of the Government with Ready Money till the Duties be paid. 1697 London Gaz. No. 3328/4 Lost..a Talley of 300 l. on Wines and Tobacco, Dated the 11th of March, 1695, No. 2329. 1738 Hist. View Court of Exchequer v. 91 To pay in their Rents into the Exchequer, and take Tallies from thence. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 385 In 1696 tallies had been at forty, and fifty, and sixty per cent. discount, and bank notes at twenty per cent. View more context for this quotation 1847 J. Francis Hist. Bank Eng. iv. 59 Tallies lay bundled up like Bath faggots in the hands of brokers, and stock-jobbers. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon (at cited word) The use of tallies in the Exchequer was abolished by 23 Geo. III c. 82, and the old tallies were ordered to be destroyed by 4 & 5 Wm. IV c. 15. 1892 W. R. Anson Law & Custom of Constit. II. vii. ii. §1. 310 In 1834..orders were given to destroy the tallies. They were used as fuel in the stoves which warmed the Houses of Parliament; they overheated the flues, and burned down the Houses. †c. tally of pro (i.e. pro, for or in favour of some one), tally of sol (i.e. solutum, paid): see quot. 1843¹. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > other promissory notes or bills warrant1433 assignmentc1460 policy1623 navy bill1679 redraft1682 tally of pro1691 bank bill1694 bank seal bill1696 chequer-bill1697 assignation1704 chequer-note1705 mint bill1707 transport debenture1707 transport-bill1710 loan-bill1722 treasury note1756 tin bill1778 treasury-bill1798 rescription1800 short bill1808 treasury-warrant1834 sight bill1853 short-paper1912 treasuries1922 T.B.1936 T.D.R.1948 T-Bill1982 society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > receipt > types of bill of lading1599 note1601 bill of loading1626 tally1626 bank receipt1699 subscription receipt1720 treasury certificate1791 warrant1825 tally of sol1843 stock receipt1901 1691 W. Lowndes Acct. Revenue Eng. (MS.) 88 The Tally of Pro called also the Tally of Assignement Imports on the same Stick both a Receipt and payment. 1696 London Gaz. No. 3157/4 Lost..a Tally of Pro, dated the 18th of May 1695, in the Name of John Richards, Esq; for 300 l. struck on the Commissioners of His Majesty's Hereditary and Temporary Revenues of Excise. 1696 London Gaz. No. 3244/4 Lost a Talley of 100 l. upon the Temporal Excise, struck the 5th of Aug. 1696, pro Edvardo Nicholas. 1697 London Gaz. No. 3308/4 Lost.., a Talley of Pro No. 90. struck Aug. 6, 1696, in the Name of Edward Nicholas Esq; for 100 l. in part of 35000 l. by him Lent the 2d of July, 1696, upon the Hered' and Temp' Excise. 1703 London Gaz. No. 3933/4 The Tallies of Pro, levied upon the Surplus of the Duties on Malt. 1843 4th Rep. Deputy Keeper App. ii. 166 The Tally of Sol..whereon the word sol was written, to show that the money..had been paid into the Exchequer. 1843 4th Rep. Deputy Keeper App. ii. 166 The Tally of Pro..operated as a modern cheque on a banker, being given forth in payment from the Exchequer, as a charge upon some public accountant, for him to pay the sum expressed thereon, out of the revenues in his hands. 1892 W. R. Anson Law & Custom of Constit. II. vii. ii. §1. 310 The payer of money into the Exchequer received a tally, or one half of a notched stick split down the middle... The other half was kept at the Exchequer... The first sort of tally was called a Tally of Sol, the second a Tally of Pro. d. transferred. Any tangible means of recording a payment or amount. Π 1874 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. (ed. 4) ii. x. 256 Each customer, when he makes a purchase, receives certain tin tickets or tallies which record the amount of his purchases. 2. a. The record of an amount due; a score or shot, an account. Also, the record of a number. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] accountc1300 counta1350 scorea1400 audit?1550 tally1580 state1582 memorandum1583 ticket1632 tick1681 a/c1736 financial statement1789 balance sheet1838 tab1889 society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > receipt acquittance1394 quittancea1400 quietus est1427 bill of receipt1434 bill of payment1465 quietus1540 tally1580 receipt1583 counter-bill1598 voucher1696 the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > mark made to keep score or record nick?a1450 notch1565 chalk1674 tally1951 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 70 In buieng of drinke, by the firkin or pot, The tallie ariseth, but hog amendes not. 1828 Marly: Planter's Life in Jamaica 55 Keep tally of their number. 1833 H. Martineau Brooke & Brooke Farm (ed. 3) vii To measure the milk and keep the tally. 1951 ‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids xi. 201 He had taken a tally of the livestock and the number of blind among it. 1976 H. Wilson Governance of Brit. iii. 55 The prime minister usually keeps a tally of those for and against. †b. Nautical. petty tally, a petty account kept of a ship's provisions, originally of a certain portion; hence transferred provisions. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > [noun] > supplied to sailors petty tally1626 the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > [noun] > supplied to sailors > account recording petty tally1626 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship's papers > [noun] > account of provisions petty tally1626 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 39 How to keepe his..petty tally. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 41 There is neither..Grocer, Poulterie..nor Butchers shop and therefore the vse of this petty tally is necessary. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xv. 74 A Commander at Sea should doe well..to consider..how to..prouide his petty Tally. a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) vi. 519/2 Beer, Cask, Bread, and Petty-Talley..12l. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Petty-Tally, in Navigation is a competent proportion of edible and potable commodities in a Ship, according to the number of the Ships company. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. 1849 in J. Craig New Universal Dict. †c. upon the tally: on credit, ‘on tick’; by running up a score. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [adverb] > on credit to fristc1440 on (also upon, of) trust1509 on (also upon) credit1560 in, upon, on (the) score1568 on time1628 on or upon (the) tick1642 upon the tally1807 on the nod1882 on the slate1909 on the cuff1927 on the knocker1934 1807 Sporting Mag. 29 185 To buy goods upon the Tally. (This term Tally, Mr. Garrow said, was not much known to the public.) d. spec. in sporting use, a total score; also in Baseball, a single run. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > gaining points > score score1742 result1802 tally1856 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > base-playing or running > types of run home run1856 tally1856 steal1867 homer1868 round trip1895 double steal1897 round-tripper1908 stroll1908 grand slam1920 dinger1968 1856 Spirit of Times 27 Dec. 276/3 One of these swiftly-delivered balls, when stopped by a skillful batsman, is sure to give the..striker time to go his rounds in safety, and score one tally as he reaches home. 1868 H. Chadwick Game of Baseball 46 Tally, this term applies to the total score of the single innings played, or of the even innings, or of the totals at the close of the match. 1875 Chicago Tribune 29 July 5/4 [They] were only two tallies behind at the beginning of the ninth inning. 1949 Marshfield (Wisconsin) News-Herald 19 July 9/1 Phil Satkowiak homered with none on in the fourth and his teammates added two more tallies. 1976 Liverpool Echo 23 Nov. 17/1 Ainsdale marksman Alex Blakeman took his tally to nine goals from his last four games with a brilliant hat-trick. 1977 Guernsey Weekly Press 21 July 8/5 They shocked their opponents by scoring four runs on four hits in the top of the first and..holding the red-and-blacks to only one tally in the bottom half. e. Australian and New Zealand. (See quot. 1965.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > number sheared tally1881 1881 A. Bathgate Waitaruna xii. 173 There was a rivalry among them [sc. shearers] as to who would have the biggest tally. 1908 D. Ferguson Bush Life (ed. 4) v. 39 Not only did his tallies of 170, 180, and even 190 place him beyond the reach of the keenest competitor, but the quality of his work was far above that of shearers in ordinary. 1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. vii. 170 The combined shearing tally was..115,000 sheep. 1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry ii. 31 Tally, a specialised alternative term for a number of sheep. Each shearer has his personal tally for..the day, progressively to date, and his final tally for the shed... At one time a notch was cut on a tally stick on the call of ‘tally’ or ‘hundred’, which indicated a hundred sheep counted. 3. figurative (from 1 and 2). Reckoning, score, account. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] rimeeOE talec950 numbrarya1382 compota1387 denumberment1455 numeration1533 magnitude1570 enumeration1577 annumeration1604 tally1614 denumeration1623 recensiona1638 connumeration1646 calculate1695 the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > summing or addition > result of resultantc1450 sum1570 tally1614 society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > an account or reckoning accountc1300 taila1325 laya1400 tale1401 reckoningc1405 tailye1497 accounterc1503 lawing1535 note1587 post1604 chalking1613 tally1614 computus1631 tick1681 tab1889 slate1909 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. iii. §6. 255 Ordinarie occurrences, that are to be numbred by a shorter talie [than by the year]. 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer iv. 1807 Left they upon thy Tally all that sin. 1648 C. Walker Relations & Observ. ii. 96 He that hath a Tally of every mans faults but his own hanging at his Girdle. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II xxxviii, in Poems (1878) III. 146 He threatened To weare it worthy, and a Tally make Of slaughter, to outvye his shop~board's Chalke. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk (1870) I. i. 14 It is stamped on his brain, and lives there thenceforward, a tally for nature, and a test of art. 1951 J. Agee Morning Watch ii. 61 Hell of a saint I'd make, he said to himself; and added with cold and level weary self-disgust to the tally of the sins he must soon confess, I swore in Lady Chapel in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. 4. a. Each of the two corresponding halves or parts of anything; a thing, or part, that exactly fits or agrees with another thing or corresponding part; a counterpart; figurative an agreement, correspondence. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > [noun] > a complement or counterpart fellowc1330 marrow1516 correlative1545 mate1578 counterpane1612 counterpart1635 correlate1643 tally1647 correspondent1650 complement1827 co-relative1864 opposite number1874 oppo1932 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > division into two > [noun] > division into two equal parts > a half halfc950 halfendealc1000 half-part1398 half-deal1399 mediety?1440 moiety1444 demi1501 demi-parcela1592 single1592 second1594 tally1647 'arf1854 half-value1903 1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 29 Whose Members being not Tallies, they'l not own Their fellowes at the Resurrection. 1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian v. 116 So suited in their minds and Persons, That they were fram'd the tallyes for each other. 1816 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 297 If histories so unlike..can..be brought to the same tally, no line of distinction remains between fact and fancy. 1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 266 The bit of which key is so cut or shaped as to form a complete tally with the interior machinery. 1906 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 207 Here he will find again the tally between proportion and thought. b. to live (on) tally, to live in concubinage, to cohabit without marriage. slang. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [verb (intransitive)] > cohabit to live together1483 adhere1525 cohabitc1530 to live in sin1838 to live (on) tally1864 shack1935 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 253 Tally, ‘to live tally,’ to live in a state of unmarried impropriety. 1867 B. Brierley Traddlepin Fold 174 Aw'd advise thi t'live tally..if theaw con mak' it reet wi' some owd damsel. 1877 W. H. Thomson Five Years' Penal Servitude iii. 246 I never took to a moll except on tally. 1877 W. H. Thomson Five Years' Penal Servitude vi. 377 A man she was then living ‘tally’ with. 1890 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 10 297/2 To ‘live tally’ is quite a common expression amongst the working classes in Lancashire, as is also tally-woman. 1901 M. Peacock in Folk-Lore June 174 He had for years been ‘living tally’ with a woman—that is in cohabitation without marriage. 5. a. A number, group, series, lot, tale; esp. a certain number or group (of things or persons) taken as the unit of computation. Also, ‘a company or division of voters at an election’ ( Eng. Dial. Dict.): see quot. 1774. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > denomination denominationc1430 tally1674 name1714 the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > result, sum telc1000 tale?c1225 tailc1330 reckoningc1392 suma1400 aggregatec1443 count1483 sum total1549 total1557 computation1586 calculation1646 quotient1659 tally1674 amount1751 tot1755 summation1841 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > group fleeta1400 congregation1526 batch1597 parcel1598 seta1616 group1705 lodge1737 groupment1837 klomp1853 tally1890 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 56 Every tally by which we tell things must be either even or odd. 1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 102 When they tone out their daily Tally of Psalms. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Wall Some Bricks..are broken, in every Load or 500 Bricks; and the Tally or Tale, is, for the most part,..too little. 1774 E. Burke Speech Concl. Poll in Wks. III. 16 Mr. Brickdale opened his poll, it seems, with a tally of those very kind of freemen, and voted many hundreds of them. 1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton (1878) xvii. 123 We told them off by tallies as they marched on board. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 June 14/1 Some few years ago..Victoria was well ahead of New South Wales in the tally of her people. 1889 19th Cent. Nov. 755 Though we had three deaths during the passage, as we also had three births, our tally remained correct. 1890 Science 12 Dec. 323 All the Indians..were drawn up in tallies, and arranged according to families. 1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Tally, a check account made by a person receiving goods;..used for the number of bricks or tons of other goods carried on canal boats and river barges. b. spec. In market-gardening, Five dozen (cabbages, bunches of turnips, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > sixty > sixty things, persons, etc. threescorea1616 tally1851 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 92/1 I buy turnips by the ‘tally’. A tally's five dozen bunches. 1883 Daily News 6 Sept. 2/7 Cauliflowers, 5s. per tally. 1891 Times 28 Sept. 4/2 Cabbages, 1s. 6d. to 2s. 6d. per tally;..marrows, 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. per tally. c. spec. In hop-picking, A specified number of bushels that have to be picked for one shilling: see quot. 1904, and cf. quot. 1881 at sense 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > hop-picking > number of bushels per shilling payment tally1868 1868 Derby Mercury 12 Feb. Back at the ‘tally’ to play your part. 1891 Sc. Leader 24 Sept. 7 A strike has occurred among the hop-pickers..owing to alleged ‘excessive measure and high tally’. 1904 Daily Chron. 29 Aug. 8/3 The pay is..at the rate of 1s. for a certain number of bushels, called the ‘tally’, which varies from five to eight or nine, according to the growth of the hops. d. The last of a specified number forming a unit of computation, on the completion of which the tally-man calls ‘tally’ and notes it down. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [noun] > result, sum > signal of numberc1300 sum totalc1450 tally1886 1886 P. Clarke ‘New Chum’ in Austral. (ed. 2) xii. 175 As a ‘hundred’ is called, one of us calls out ‘tally’, and cuts one notch in a stick. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) If the articles are counted singly, they are called out up to the nineteenth; but instead of..‘twenty’, the word tally is substituted; thus ‘eighteen, nineteen, tally’... In counting articles that can be lifted in groups the tale is thus made—‘five, ten, fifteen, tally’. †6. A mark (such as the notch of a tally) representing a unit quantity, or a series or set of units. ΘΠ society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > [noun] > mark representing unit quantity tally1719 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 314 In Courts had all their Hearts desire, For ev'ry Kiss a Tally. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 264 He notcht his Arse with Tallies. 1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 44 Where chalky tallies yet remain in rows. 7. a. A distinguishing mark on a bale or case of merchandise, etc., corresponding to one in a list, for the purpose of comparison or identification; hence, a mark, label, ticket, or tab, used for this purpose, or to denote the weight and contents, etc. ΘΠ society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > mark of identification > [noun] > mark identifying goods merchant mark1540 merchant's mark1557 shop mark1592 skin mark1703 brand1728 chop1828 trademark1839 tally1851 scribing1859 trade name1890 word mark1902 TM1961 UPC1974 countermark- 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xlii. 210 Tying a lettered, leathern tally round its neck. 1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) vi. §324 But the air is invisible; and it is not easily perceived how either marks or tallies may be put on it, that it may be traced. 1865 Morning Star 27 Jan. I entered the weights in the landing-book, and marked them in the tallies..and I saw a great number of the tallies afterwards put on the bales. b. Coal Mining. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Tally, a mark or number placed by a collier upon every tub of coals loaded... They are usually little bits of tin having a number stamped upon them. 1890 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 10 297/2 At many pits it is customary to send the tubs of coals to bank with tin tallies attached... This tally is so that the banksmen and weighmen may place the coals to the credit of the men working in the banks below, the banks and tallies bearing the same numbers. c. spec. in Horticulture, A tab or label of wood, metal, etc., on which are inscribed the name, class, etc. of the plant or tree to which it is attached, or beside which it is stuck in the ground. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > plant identification label tally1822 naming-stick1824 1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening iii. iv. 1190 Every plant [in a Botanical Garden] ought to have its name painted on strong cast-iron talleys. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 17/1 Many different kinds of tally are used in gardens and arboretums, to bear either numbers referring to a catalogue, or the names of the plants near which they are placed. 1870 W. Thornbury Tour Eng. I. i. 23 The..gray stone, the tally to mark a seed plot in Death's neglected garden. 1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 234/2 Tallies of wood [in horticulture] should be slightly smeared with white paint and then written on while damp with a black-lead pencil. d. A tie-label, tab, or tag for luggage, etc. ΘΠ society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > labelling > [noun] > label, tag, or ticket bill1474 schedule1523 label?1577 libel1603 tessera1656 check1812 price ticket1830 etiquette1831 sticker1862 tag1864 price tag1880 tab1883 tally1909 mailing label1959 swing-ticket1962 swing label1968 1909 Advt. Temple Tower Tallies, 1d. per packet, strung ready for use. e. Nautical slang. (See quots 1929, 1946). Also cap-tally = tally ribbon n. at Compounds 3 below. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] nameeOE wordeOE clepinga1300 namingc1300 neveningc1300 titlec1390 notea1393 stylec1400 calling?a1425 nomination?a1425 vocable1440 appellation1447 denomination?a1475 vocation1477 preface1582 prenomination1599 nomenclature1610 expressiona1631 denotation1631 appellative1632 compellation1637 denominate1638 nomenclation1638 nominance1642 titularity1643 entitlement1823 compellative1830 cognomen1852 tally1929 denotative1944 anthroponym1952 1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 138 Tally, a name or name-plate of any description. 1945 ‘Tackline’ Holiday Sailor i. 9 We queued-up before him to have our cap-tallies—not cap-ribbons, we now discovered—secured about our caps with the authentic sailor's-knot. 1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 172 Tally, a sailor's name is his ‘tally’—e.g. ‘Answer your tally!’ 8. Used as = tail n.² 2b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > specific tax in France tailc1515 tallya1613 a1613 T. Overbury Obseruations Xvii. Prouinces (1626) 15 The Gentrie are the onely entire Body there, which participate with the Prerogatiues of the Crowne; for from it they receiue..supply to their estates, by Gouernments and Pensions, and freedome from Tallies vpon their owne Lands. 1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell xvii. 211 When one hath seene the Tally and taillage of France,..the Assise of Holland, the Gabels of Italy,..hee will blesse God, and love England better ever after. Compounds General attributive. C1. Simple attributive and objective genitive, as (from 1a, 1b). a. tally-broker n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > use of bills of exchange > one dealing in bills of exchange > dealer in exchequer receipts tally-broker1715 1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 154 Such a Money-Monger, such a Tally-Broker, and Cheater of the Publick. tally-court n. Π 1684 E. Chamberlayne 2nd Pt. Present State Eng. (ed. 12) 105 In the Tally Court..the Tally-cutter attends. tally-cutter n. Π 1684 E. Chamberlayne 2nd Pt. Present State Eng. (ed. 12) 105 In the Tally Cour..the Tally-cutter attends. 1786 St. Paper in Ann. Reg. 193/1 The tally writer..takes an account of the sum, and writes it on both sides of the tally delivered to him, with the sum cut upon it in notches by the tally-cutter. tally-office n. Π 1631 S. D'Ewes Jrnl. Parl. (1783) 52 That unjust and rare recorde called Domesdei in the tallie-office of the Exchequer. tally-stick n. b. (From 2a, 2b, 2e.) tally-book n. Π 1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry ii. 31 Tally book, the official record of what every man has shorn in each run of the day. 1972 T. A. Bulman Kamloops Cattlemen xxxi. 178 Our tally books showed that we were short a bull and six head of cattle. tally-check n. Π 1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 10 Oct. 13/4 Rudely inscribed potsherds..tally-checks scrawled with entries of time-labour and food-wages. tally-keeper n. Π 1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad v. 55 The tally-keeper..tallied one for the opposition in his book. 1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xix. 247 Ocher..threw up his office of tally-keeper. tally-table n. C2. In reference to the instalment or petty credit system (cf. 2c) worked by the tallyman n. tally-business n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > selling by hire purchase tally-trade1829 tally-business1851 1851Tally-business [see tally-master n.]. 1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret II. viii. 153 You're not connected with—with the tally business, are you, sir? tally-draper n. tally-master n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > one who sells on hire purchase tallyman1654 tallywoman1728 tally-master1851 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 383/2 The ‘travellers’..are occasionally shopmen, for a ‘large’ tally-master not unfrequently carries on a retail trade in addition to his tally-business. tally-packman n. Π 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 381/1 The pedlar or hawking tallyman travels for orders... The great majority of the tally-packmen are Scotchmen. tally-room n. tally-shop n. Π 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 32/1 The poor,..pawnbrokers, loan-offices, tally-shops, dolly-shops, are the only parties who will trust them. 1870 Public Opinion 16 July [He] described from personal inspection the low quality of the provisions supplied in the tally-shops. tally-system n. Π 1850 J. R. Planché Island of Jewels ii. i. 21 Is it all a trick, you make this mighty splash on, Or, is the tally system here in fashion? 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 372/2 Some had been unsuccessful as tallymen when shopkeepers, or travellers for tally-shops, and have resorted to hawking or street-trading,..blending the tally system with the simple rules of sale for ready money. tally-trade n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > selling by hire purchase tally-trade1829 tally-business1851 1829 W. Cobbett Advice to Young Men ii. §60 The ‘Tally-trade’, by which household goods, coals, clothing, all sorts of things, are sold upon credit, the seller keeping a tally, and receiving payment..little by little. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 383/1 Establishments, ‘doing largely’ in the tally-trade. C3. Special combinations: See also tallyman n., woman n. tally band n. Nautical = tally ribbon n. below. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [noun] > band > types of > bearing name of sailor's ship cap-ribbon1917 tally ribbon1919 cap-tally1944 tally band1977 1977 Times 7 Jan. (Royal Navy Suppl.) p. ii/6 That dear little pancake hat with its silk tally band;..I believe that it was because of that little hat that I had joined the WRNS in the first place. tally-board n. a board on which an account is notched or chalked; e.g. one on which the record of a weaver's work is kept ( Eng. Dial. Dict.). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > tally tailstick1235 taila1325 white stick?c1430 senyec1440 tallyc1440 chalka1529 tally-stick1830 tally-board1849 chalk-score1867 1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. vii. 133 You have not got the tally board so completely in your hand, my friend. tally card n. U.S. a scorecard. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > recording score > [noun] > scorecard scoring-paper1840 scoring-book1845 scoring-card1845 score-paper1847 scorebook1851 scoring-sheet1851 score-sheet1859 scorecard1877 tally card1909 scoreline1969 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Tally card. 1928 Publishers' Weekly 14 July 172 Allied with these are tally cards, playing cards, novelties and party favors. tally-clerk n. one who checks merchandise with a list in loading or discharging cargo; also (U.S.), one who assists in counting and recording votes. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > election officials scrutator1618 scrutineer1682 scrutinator1691 returning officer1728 presiding officer1745 viander1751 warden1763 poll clerk1783 canvasser1792 polling clerk1833 tally-clerk1890 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > who load or unload > and check merchandise tallyman1888 tally-clerk1890 1890 Daily News 13 Sept. 6/4 A large number of ships' tally clerks,..have not had a day's work for weeks. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 25 Feb. 2/1 There is a duplicate of this board, but on a small scale, placed on the desk of the tally-clerk, so that the record of the votes is constantly before his eyes. tally desk n. Nautical a desk at which merchandise is checked. ΚΠ 1899 C. J. C. Hyne Further Adventures Capt. Kettle ix. 166 He went up to the second mate at the tally-desk on the main deck below. Categories » tally-husband n. slang a man who ‘lives tally’ ( 4b) with a woman. tally-mark n. = sense 7. tally-pot n. a vessel in which records of a counting or voting are placed ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895). tally ribbon n. Nautical a sailor's cap-ribbon bearing the name of his ship (cf. sense 7e above). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [noun] > band > types of > bearing name of sailor's ship cap-ribbon1917 tally ribbon1919 cap-tally1944 tally band1977 1919 W. Lang Sea-lawyer's Log 14 Those three caps, too, look very smart, with the neat, white canvas cover which we wear during the summer months, and the tally ribbon with its tricky little bow on the left side. tally-room n. (Ireland) a committee-room at an election. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > committee room at election tally-room1842 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xvii The popular tunes..in the tally rooms, while the fellows are waiting to go up. 1910 Daily News 24 Jan. 8 Mr. Wood could neither show himself in the place nor get a tally-room, as they call their committee-rooms there [i.e. at Lisburn]. tally-sheet n. a score-sheet, esp. (U.S.) in recording votes. ΚΠ 1889 Cent. Mag. Feb. 622/1 The growing disposition [in U.S.] to tamper with the ballot-box and the tally-sheet. 1893 Scribner's Mag. June 779/2 To call her attention to a tally-sheet, covering a period of three calendar months. tally-shouter n. Mining see quot. ΚΠ 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Tally-shouter, one who shouts out the numbers on the tallies to the weigher. tally-stick n. a stick used as or like a tally (sense 1). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > arithmetical instrument > tally or reckoning stick stick?c1430 tallyc1440 score1565 nick-stick1658 tally-stick1830 society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > tally tailstick1235 taila1325 white stick?c1430 senyec1440 tallyc1440 chalka1529 tally-stick1830 tally-board1849 chalk-score1867 1830 Virginia Lit. Museum 27 Jan. 526/2 A ‘negro boy, with a talley stick was a statesman complete in his school’. a1861 T. Winthrop Canoe & Saddle (1883) vii. 153 She could not tell how many [years], having dropped her tally-stick in the fire..that very day. 1895 W. J. Hoffman Beginnings of Writing 140 Several tribes of Indians, in California, employed a variety of tallysticks to record transactions in business. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 49 They hopefully notched away the moons on their tally~sticks. tally-writer n. formerly, the clerk who wrote the description and amount of the payment on two opposite sides of the exchequer tallies. ΘΠ society > communication > record > written record > compiler or keeper of written records > [noun] > others secretary14.. remembrancer1523 rapporteur1653 tally-writer1786 messenger1793 memorandist1866 toll-clerk1878 shorthand typist1901 progress clerk1916 filing clerk1922 secretary bird1969 1786 St. Paper in Ann. Reg. 193/1 The tally writer..takes an account of the sum, and writes it on both sides of the tally delivered to him, with the sum cut upon it in notches by the tally-cutter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † tallyn.² Etymology: < tally v.³: compare French taille < tailler to deal. Cards. Obsolete. At faro, basset, etc., A deal. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > game or match > a deal tally1706 1706 S. Centlivre Basset-table iv. ii. 53 Captain... Pray count the Cards, I believe there's a false Tally. Sir James... No, they are Right, Sir (Sir James counts em). 1760 S. Foote Minor iii. 74 A Most infernal run. Let's see, (Pulls out a card) Loader a thousand, the Baron two, Tally—Enough to beggar a banker. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2021). tallyn.³ Forms: Short for tally-ho v. Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtally. rare. See quot. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > signals > [noun] > cry huinga1250 sohoa1572 tue1602 shout and cry1609 shout and hoyes1609 chevyc1785 gone away1827 tally1886 1886 in J. W. Fortescue Rec. Stag-hunting Exmoor (1887) 180 Another hundred yards of slow hunting, and then a loud tally proclaims a fresh find. Derivatives tally v.⁴ to signal with tally-ho! ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > signals > signal [verb (intransitive)] > cry hallowc1420 harro?1578 view1812 soho1824 yoicks1840 tally1886 1886 in J. W. Fortescue Rec. Stag-hunting Exmoor (1887) 182 The farmer is half inclined to fear he has tallied a fresh hind. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020). tallyv.¹ Brit. /ˈtali/, U.S. /ˈtæli/ Forms: see tally n.¹ Etymology: < tally n.¹ Compare also medieval Latin talliāre to cut (wood); also, to conform or cause to correspond in number or measure: see Du Cange. (Some of the uses may have been influenced by association with Latin tālis such, tālio giving like for like.) I. Senses relating to reckoning or counting. 1. a. transitive †To notch (a stick) so as to make it a tally (obsolete); hence, to mark, score, set down or enter (a number, etc.) on or as on a tally; transferred to record, register. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > make or cut a tally tail1377 tallyc1440 strike1626 the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] > record > by notches scorec1386 tallyc1440 nick?1523 notch1573 strike1626 society > communication > record > pictorial, etc., records > [verb (transitive)] nick?1523 notch1573 score1590 tallya1640 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 486/1 Talyyn, or scoryn' on taly, tallio, dico. 1632 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 94 M^rs Jennet Carrier had a knife in her hand,..to tally a sticke to shewe how many dishes full there were. 1633 J. Ford Broken Heart iv. i. sig. G2^v So prouident is folly in sad issue, That after-wit, like Bankrupts debts, stand tallyed Without all possibilities of payment. a1640 W. Fenner Sacrifice of Faithful (1648) 53 There is not one of them that God tallies downe, or reckons for a praier. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 18 At every tenth Call, perhaps you may tally down a Sailor. 1890 Cent. Mag. June 205/2 These [field judges] measure and tally the trials of competitors in jumps, pole vaults [etc.]. b. spec. To identify, count, and enter each bale, case, article, etc. of a cargo or lot of goods in loading or discharging. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > [verb (transitive)] > identify and count each article, etc. tally1812 1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs i. 7 Goods paying Duty by Tale are, at the delivery, to be tallied at 1, 10, 20, &c. according to the nature thereof. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Jan. 5/2 Upon the mates of ships..falls the bulk of the work and responsibility entailed in getting a ship ready to receive cargo, in ‘tallying’ the cargo, in preparing her to leave port [etc.]. 1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 226 No pretence was made of tallying in the cargo. c. To furnish (a bale of goods, etc.) with a tally or identifying label; to distinguish, mark, or identify by or as by a tally: see tally n.¹ 7. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > be distinctive mark on [verb (transitive)] > put identifying mark on > commercial goods scribe1806 tally1837 trademark1859 badge1980 1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow xxxiv, in Metropolitan Apr. 385 Leaving his people to mark and tally the bales. 1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) vi. §332 We have tallied the air, and put labels on the wind. 1865 Morning Star 27 Jan. If a number of bales were tallied as having arrived by a vessel called the Onwards, the label with the mark ‘Onwards’ on it was taken off and another marked the ‘City of Dublin’ placed in its stead. d. Sport (chiefly North American). To score (a run, goal, etc.). (a) intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (intransitive)] > make points score1844 tally1867 1867 Ball Players' Chron. 14 Nov. 2/4 Taylor took his first on a muff by Banker and tallied on passed balls. 1903 N.Y. Times 18 Aug. 5/2 The home players tallied only five times during the entire contest. 1931 Randolph Enterprise (Elkins, W. Va.) 9 July 5/3 The nine from Randolph had tallied five times in the same frame. 1947 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Nov. 12/2 The visitors tallied for the first time in the opening minutes of the game when Ann Worthington sent a hard shot into the corner of the cage. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 Feb. 17/2 Pit Martin also scored for a three-goal first period for Chicago and Wayne Maki tallied early in the second. 1974 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 13 Oct. C.2/3 Terell tallied on a two-yard run and took a pass from Jeff Starrett 70 yards for a second score. (b) transitive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (transitive)] > score get1634 make1680 score1742 notch1836 steal1836 to put up1860 rattle1860 to put on1865 tally1875 net1907 to rack up1921 slam1959 1875 Chicago Tribune 24 Aug. 5/6 A furious overthrow by Beals at second..tallied three unearned runs. 1966 Telegraph (Brisbane) 22 Jan. 5/2 He started racing in November, and in five starts has tallied a win, second, and a third. 1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 6 July 1- c/6 The Angels tallied their fifth run in the third inning as Bob Brenly came on a Young single to short center. 2. a. To count or reckon up, to number. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] rimeeOE arimec885 atellc885 talec897 i-telle971 tellOE readc1225 reckon?c1225 aima1375 numbera1382 denumber1382 accounta1393 casta1400 countc1400 umberc1400 ascribe1432 annumerate?a1475 to sum upa1475 annumbera1500 ennumber1535 reckon?1537 tally1542 compute1579 recount1581 rate1599 catalogize1602 to add up1611 suma1616 enumeratea1649 numerate1657 to run up1830 to figure out1834 figure1854 to count up1872 enumer1936 1542 T. Becon Newe Pathway vnto Praier vi. sig. C.viij Some also vpon theyr bedes taly vp, I cannot tel howe many Lady Psalters. 1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. F.iiii ^v The first or the first couple hauing twelue sillables, the other fourteene, which versifyers call Powlters measure, because so they talle their wares by dosens. 1598 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 335 Two men, to serve..att the pitt, to take the reckoninges, the one..who doth tallee the horses. 1648 Bp. J. Hall Breathings Devout Soul iv. 5 I have not kept even-reckonings with thee; I have not justly tallied up thy inestimable benefits. 1660 Col. J. Okie's Lament. (single sheet) I..must now..Tally the Account of our State Stinking Beer. 1885 A. Munro Siren Casket (1889) 85 They anchor'd at morning to tally their spoil. b. figurative. To reckon, estimate (with object clause). colloquial. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)] talec897 ween971 takec1175 weigha1200 deem?c1225 judge?c1225 guessc1330 reta1382 accounta1387 aretc1386 assize1393 consider1398 ponder?a1400 adjudgec1440 reckonc1440 peisec1460 ponderate?a1475 poisea1483 trutinate1528 steem1535 rate?1555 sense1564 compute1604 censure1605 cast1606 cense1606 estimate1651 audit1655 state1671 balance1692 esteem1711 appraise1823 figure1854 tally1860 revalue1894 lowball1973 1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xix. 297 You can't hardly tally how she's coming out, because she isn't exactly a woman yet. †3. intransitive. To deal on tally or credit; to open or have a credit account with any one. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > other trading methods > [verb (intransitive)] > deal on credit tail1514 tally1596 1596 Foxe's Actes & Monuments (ed. 5) I. iv. 298/2 He was in great debt..driuen to tallie for his owne cates. 1724 J. Swift Let. to Mr. Harding 2 Several Gentlemen have been forced to Tally with their Workmen and give them Bits of Cards Sealed and Subscribed with their Names. II. Senses relating to correspondence or agreement. †4. transitive. figurative. To cause (things) to correspond or agree; to ‘match’; past participle matched, suited, adapted. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree, harmonize, or be congruous with [verb (transitive)] > bring into agreement or harmony concile1398 commune1423 agree1532 concord1548 conciliate1573 square1578 concent1596 tally1607 to wind up1608 accommodate1609 adjust1611 conform1646 reconcilea1672 attune1744 harmonize1767 1607 Bp. J. Hall Holy Observ. 75 Morall Philosophie [teacheth] that tallying of iniuries is iustice: Diuinitie, that good must be returned for ill. 1716 J. Swift Let. 30 Aug. (2001) II. 176 They are not so well tally'd to the present juncture. c1717 M. Prior Epitaph 16 They seem'd just tallied for each other. 1812 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 177 Peculiarly tallied in interests, by each wanting exactly what the other has to spare. †5. a. To compare, as tallies, for the purpose of verifying an account, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > compare [verb (transitive)] > balance against counterweighc1430 weigha1535 proportion1591 counterbalance1603 scalea1616 appoisea1670 counterpoise1685 tally1702 commeasure1849 benchmark1963 1702 London Gaz. No. 3827/4 These are to give Notice to all the Fortunate in Sydenham's Land-Lottery..to bring their Prize Tickets, in order to have the same Tallied. 1703 London Gaz. No. 3963/4 All Persons, whose Tickets in the late Land-Lottery have not been tallied and reported. †b. figurative. To bring into comparison, compare. ΚΠ 1773 J. Ross Fratricide (MS) vi. 478 What but a shadow is this mortal life When tally'd with eternity? 6. intransitive. To agree, as one half of a cloven tally with its fellow; to correspond or answer exactly; to accord, conform, fit. Const. †to (obsolete), with. (The chief current sense.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree/be in harmony/be congruous [verb (intransitive)] > exactly jump1567 coincidate1657 coincide1705 tally1705 pary1716 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 227 I found pieces of Tiles that exactly tally'd with the Channel. 1721 Coll. Polit. Lett. London Jrnl. 1720 64 The Courage and Understanding of her [the High Church's] Passive Sons Tally to each other. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. xii. 198 Neither shall I be ever able to comprehend how such an Animal [sc. Yahoo] and such a Vice [sc. pride], could tally together. 1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. 271 A Theory that does not exactly tally with fact. 1758 E. M. da Costa in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 229 The impressions of ferns, grasses, &c. are easily recognizable, they so minutely tally to the plants they represent. 1779 J. Moore View Society & Manners France (1789) I. xxiv. 188 High hills, whose opposite sides tally so exactly. 1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon II. 82 It tallies exactly with what the others have said. III. (? Connected with tales n.) 7. transitive (?) To summon or empanel as a juryman. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [verb (transitive)] > empanel a jury > empanel as juryman jure1598 tally1776 1776 in Stonehouse Axholme (1839) 145 None of the Lord's tenants, either freehold or copyhold, to be tallied out of the Manor, to the Assizes, Sessions, or Sheriff's Court. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tallyv.² Etymology: Origin obscure.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtally. Nautical. Now rare. 1. transitive. To haul taut (the fore or main leesheets). ΚΠ c1450 Pilgrim's Sea-Voy. 19 in Stacions Rome (1867) 37 A boy or tweyn Anone up styen, And ouerthwart the sayle~yerde lyen;—‘Y how! taylia!’ the remenaunt cryen, And pulle with alle theyr myght. a1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. 2301) When they hale aft the Sheate of Maine or Fore-Saile, they saie Tallee aft the Sheate. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 39 Get your Starboord tacks aboord, and tally or hale off your Lee-Sheats. 1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck ii. 21 Taught aft the sheet, they tally, and belay. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Border les écoutes tout plat, to tally the sheets flat aft. 2. intransitive. To catch hold or ‘clap’ on to a rope. ΚΠ 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxviii. 97 All hands tallied on to the cat-fall. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxv. 133 All hands tally-on to the main tack. 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 93 Heh! Tally on. Aft and walk away with her! Handsome to the cathead now; O tally on the fall! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † tallyv.³ Forms: Also 1700s ( taillé), tailly. Etymology: < French tailler to cut, especially to deal at faro, etc.: see tail v.² Cards. Obsolete. intransitive. At faro, basset, and similar games, To be banker (i.e. to deal). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > games of chance played with cards > [verb (intransitive)] > be banker tally1706 1701 G. Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair i. 7 The French Marquis, you know, constantly Taillés. 1701 G. Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair ii. ii. 17 I rely'd altogether on your setting the Cards; you us'd to Taillé with success.] 1706 S. Centlivre Basset-table iv. ii. 52 Lady R. Sir James, pray will you Tally. Sir J. With all my Heart, Madam. (Takes the Cards and shuffles them.) 1715 Lady M. W. Montagu Basset-table 68 Wretch that I was, how often have I swore When Winnall tally'd, I wou'd Punt no more? 1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess Mar 17 Dec. The duke taillys at basset every night. 1748 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 26 Dec. I don't know whom your Highness will get to tally to you; you know I am ruined by dealing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2021). tallyadv. /ˈtɔːlli/ Etymology: < tall adj. + -ly suffix². Now rare or Obsolete. In a tall manner. †1. In a seemly manner; becomingly, elegantly; fairly, well; bravely. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [adverb] rightlyeOE arightc970 rightOE properly?c1225 goodc1275 rightfully1340 truly1340 tallya1375 featlya1400 rekenlyc1400 communablya1425 fitc1440 accordantlyc1443 accordinglyc1443 justilyc1450 seemingly1483 fitlyc1550 conveniently1569 arightly1588 legitimately1593 fittinglya1643 legitimously1657 honest-like1807 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [adverb] > with propriety comelyOE seemlyc1320 menskfullya1375 tallya1375 comelilyc1400 comelywise1440 decently1552 decent1716 decorously1808 properly1811 wise-like1822 the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > pleasing fitness > [adverb] > in seemly or decorous manner comelyOE menskful?c1225 seemlyc1320 menskfullya1375 tallya1375 comelilyc1400 comelywise1440 handsomely1525 decently1552 civilly1593 decent1716 comme il faut1756 decorously1808 wise-like1822 spiffily1977 a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1706 Sche..borwed boiȝes cloþes, & talliche hire a-tyred tiȝtli þer-inne. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 486/1 Tally,..in semely wyse, decenter, eleganter. 1450 Anc. Deed A. 8559 (P.R.O.) in Catalogue IV. 327 [Proctour should come to the] Hall of Broghton and ther tawly besek John of Broghton [es]qwier to be his gode master. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8813 When this taburnacle atyrit was tally to end, Thai closit hit full clanly, all with clene ambur. 2. Highly, loftily. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > [adverb] > to a great or considerable height highOE heaven-high?1518 loftily1548 tower-wise1581 a-cock-hye1598 tally1611 eminently1620 spirally1806 sky-high1818 toweringly1822 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Hautement, highly, tally. a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Captaine ii. ii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Gg4/1 You Lodovick That stand so tally on your reputation, You shall be he shall speake it. 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