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.