2. Verb. (third-person singular of ''tally'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tallies
1. tally [v] - See also: tally
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tallies
Literary usage of Tallies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"I doubt not neither, but the prêtent lords commissioners of the Treasury have
endeavoured to avoid such tallies ; and so did I, till I found it impossible ..."
2. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1902)
"SA The origin of tallies is a point of extreme doubt, and it will be sufficient
for our present purpose to suggest that they were introduced as a part of ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1858)
"The bank had done a magnificent business for two years. The tallies bore an
interest, of 8 per cent per annum, and the bank was allowed 8 per cent per annum ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"tallies are records kept by cutting notches in sticks of wood, and are a survival
of probably the earliest appliance of a commercial nature made by man. ..."
5. Calendar of the Close Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office: Prepared by Great Britain Public Record Office, Great Britain Court of Chancery, H. C. Maxwell Lyte, William Henry Stevenson (1902)
"Also he wills and provides that proclamation shall be made in each county that
all those who have tallies of the exchequer that have not yet been allowed of ..."
6. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction by Reuben Percy, John Timbs (1834)
"Sheriffs, as collectors of the Crown, gave tallies. By statute 1 Edward I., c.
2, anno 121)9, it was ordained, " Let the sheriffs beware, under pain of ..."
7. The Foundations of England; Or, Twelve Centuries of British History (B.C. 55 by James Henry Ramsay (1898)
"The parties paying in money at Easter were given receipts in the shape of tallies,
slips of wood on which their names were written, with the sum credited to ..."
8. The Foundations of England; Or, Twelve Centuries of British History (B.C. 55 by James Henry Ramsay (1898)
"... Easter were given receipts in the shape of tallies, slips of wood on which
their names were written, with the sum credited to them marked by notches cut ..."
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