\Tal"ly\, n.; pl. {Tallies}. [OE. taile, taille, F. taille
a cutting, cut tally, fr. tailler to cut, but influenced
probably by taill['e], p. p. of tailler. See {Tailor}, and
cf. {Tail} a limitation, {Taille}, {Tallage}.]
1. Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores
   were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books,
   sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts
   were kept.
Note: In purshasing and selling, it was once customary for
      traders to have two sticks, or one stick cleft into two
      parts, and to mark with a score or notch, on each, the
      number or quantity of goods delivered, -- the seller
      keeping one stick, and the purchaser the other. Before
      the use of writing, this, or something like it, was the
      only method of keeping accounts; and tallies were
      received as evidence in courts of justice. In the
      English exchequer were tallies of loans, one part being
      kept in the exchequer, the other being given to the
      creditor in lieu of an obligation for money lent to
      government.
2. Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks,
   whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one
   kept in duplicate.
3. One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
         They were framed the tallies for each other.
                                               --Dryden.
4. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make
   or earn a tally in a game.
5. A tally shop. See {Tally shop}, below.
{Tally shop}, a shop at which goods or articles are sold to
   customers on account, the account being kept in
   corresponding books, one called the tally, kept by the
   buyer, the other the counter tally, kept by the seller,
   and the payments being made weekly or otherwise by
   agreement. The trade thus regulated is called tally trade.
   --Eng. Encyc.
{To strike tallies}, to act in correspondence, or alike.
   [Obs.] --Fuller.

\Tal"ly\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tallied}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Tallying}.] [Cf. F. tialler to cut. See {Tally}, n.]
1. To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to
   correspond; to cause to fit or suit.
         They are not so well tallied to the present
         juncture.                             --Pope.
2. (Naut.) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard
   or outboard. --W. C. Russell.
{Tally on} (Naut.), to dovetail together.

\Tal"ly\, v. i.
1. To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match.
         I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with
         the channel.                          --Addison.
         Your idea . . . tallies exactly with mine.
                                               --Walpole.
2. To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game.
{Tally on} (Naut.), to man a rope for hauling, the men
   standing in a line or tail.

\Tal"ly\, adv. [See {Tall}, a.]
Stoutly; with spirit. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.