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—tallier, n./tal"ee/, n., pl. tallies, v., tallied, tallying.n.1. an account or reckoning; a record of debit and credit, of the score of a game, or the like.2. Also called tally stick. a stick of wood with notches cut to indicate the amount of a debt or payment, often split lengthwise across the notches, the debtor retaining one piece and the creditor the other.3. anything on which a score or account is kept.4. a notch or mark made on or in a tally.5. a number or group of items recorded.6. a mark made to register a certain number of items, as four consecutive vertical lines with a diagonal line through them to indicate a group of five.7. a number of objects serving as a unit of computation.8. a ticket, label, or mark used as a means of identification, classification, etc.9. anything corresponding to another thing as a counterpart or duplicate.v.t.10. to mark or enter on a tally; register; record.11. to count or reckon up.12. to furnish with a tally or identifying label.13. to cause to correspond or agree.v.i.14. to correspond, as one part of a tally with the other; accord or agree: Does his story tally with hers?15. to score a point or make a goal, as in a game.[1275-1325; (n.) ME taly < ML talia, var. of L talea rod, cutting, lit., heel-piece, deriv. of talus heel; (v.) late ME talyen, deriv. of the n.]
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Universalium. 2010.
