tally
41Tally — 1) A long wooden stick used as a receipt. It was notched to indicate the amount due and then split in half. Tallies were used in the exchequer for accounting and could also be used to assign revenues. The exchequer could issue half a tally to a… …
42tally — 1. noun 1) he keeps a tally of the score Syn: running total, count, record, reckoning, register, account, roll; census, poll 2) her tally of 22 victories Syn: total, score, cou …
43tally up — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms tally up : present tense I/you/we/they tally up he/she/it tallies up present participle tallying up past tense tallied up past participle tallied up same as tally II, 2) …
44tally — tal•ly [[t]ˈtæl i[/t]] n. pl. lies, 1) an account; reckoning 2) a stick of wood with notches cut to indicate the amount of a debt or payment 3) anything on which a score or account is kept 4) a notch or mark made on or in a tally 5) a number… …
45tally — / tæli/ noun a note of things counted or recorded ● to keep a tally of stock movements or of expenses ■ verb to agree, to be the same ● The invoices do not tally. ● The accounts department tried to make the figures tally …
46TALLY — a notched stick used in commercial and Exchequer transactions when writing was yet a rare accomplishment; the marks, of varying breadth, indicated sums paid by a purchaser; the stick was split longitudinally, and one half retained by the… …
47tally — 1. noun a tally of the score Syn: running total, count, record, reckoning, register, account, roll 2. verb these statistics tally with government figures Syn: correspond, agree, accord, concur, coincide …
48tally — talley, or tally A stick cut into two parts, on each whereof is marked, with notches or otherwise, what is due between debtor and creditor. It was the ancient mode of keeping accounts. One part was held by the creditor, and the other by the… …
49Tally oh! — Luke Vibert Pour les articles homonymes, voir Vibert. Luke Vibert …
50tally — an added herring to the warp (three fish), added to a retail amount of fish to make up for broken or damaged fish. See hundred and tally …
