tallow-face 
Out, you baggage ! 
You talloif-face ! Shale., R. and J., iii. 5. 158. 
tallow-faced (tal'6-fast), a. Having a face 
resembling tallow in color; pale or pasty in 
complexion. 
Every lover admires his mistress, though she be very 
deformed of her self, ill favored, wrinkled, pimpled, pale, 
red, yellow, tand, tallow-faced. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 519. 
tallow-gourd (tal'6-gord), 11. Same as wax- 
gourd. 
tallowish (tal'o-ish), a. [< tallow + -is/i 1 .] 
Having the properties or nature of tallow; re- 
sembling tallow. Bailey, 1727. 
tallow-keech (tal'6-keeh), n. A mass of tallow 
rolled up into a lump for the tallow-chandler. 
Formerly also tallow-catch. 
tallow-nut (tal'6-nut), n. A thorny tree, Xime- 
nia Americana, of tropical America, extending, 
as a shrub or low wide-spreading tree, as far 
north as Florida. Its wood is very heavy, tough, and 
hard, and it bears a plum-like edible fruit containing a 
white globose nut. Also wild lime, hog-plum, and moun- 
tain-plum. 
tallow-nutmeg (tal'o-nut^meg), . See nut- 
meq, 2. 
tallow-oil (tal'o-oil), n. An oil obtained from 
tallow by pressure. 
tallow-shrub (tal'6-shrub), n. The bayberry 
or wax-myrtle, Myrica cerifera. 
tallow-top (tal'6-top), n. A diamond or other 
precious stone which is much rounded in front 
and flat at the back. 
tallow-topped (tal'6-topt), a. Having a slight- 
ly rounded or convex surface, as that of a cush- 
ion : noting a precious stone so cut. 
tallow-tree (tal' 6-tre), . 1. One of the trees 
which yield a substance known as vegetable 
tallow; particularly, Sapiiim (Stillingia) sebife- 
rum, a native of China, introduced and natural- 
ized in India, the West Indies, and to some ex- 
tent in the southern United States. It is a small 
smooth tree, with fruits an inch and a half thick, contain- 
ing three seeds coated with a fatty substance forming the 
tallow. From the seeds themselves an oil is extracted in 
China, used for varnishing umbrellas, aa a hair-oil, etc. 
The wood is so hard and dense as to be used for printing- 
blocks, and the leaves afford a black dye. 
2. Same as tallowwood. 
tallowwood (tal'6-wud), n. One of the stringy- 
barked eucalypts, Eucalyptus tuicrocorys. It at- 
tains a great size. The timber, which is hard and durable, 
is used for railroad-ties, wheel-work, etc. The wood is 
filled with an oily substance (whence the name). 
tallowy (tal'o-i), a. [< ME. talwy (= G. Sw. 
talgig) ; < tallow + -y*.] Having the properties 
of tallow. 
tallwood (tal'wud), n. [Formerly also tal- 
wood, tall woode; < tall 2 + wood 1 .'] Wood cut 
for billets. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] 
Tall woode, pacte wodde to make byllettes of, taillee. 
Palsgrave. (Halliuiell.) 
Also, if any person bring or cause to be brought to this 
city or the liberties thereof to be sold, or sell, offer, or put 
to saile any tallwood, billets, faggots, or other firewood, 
not being of the full assize which the same ought to hold. 
Calthrop's Reports (1670). (Nares.) 
tally 1 (tal'i), .; pi. tallies (-iz). [Formerly 
also tallie; < ME. taly, talye, a later form of 
taille, taile, tayle, etc., a cutting, a cut, etc. : see 
tail?.] 1. A piece of wood on which notches 
or scores are cut to mark numbers, as in keep- 
ing an account or giving a receipt; loosely, 
anything on which a score or an account is 
kept. Before the use of writing, or before writing be- 
came general, this or something like it was the usual 
method of keeping accounts. In purchasing and selling 
it was customary to make duplicate tallies of the transac- 
tion, or to split one tally through the middle. In the 
English Exchequer tallies were used till 1812, which an- 
swered the purpose of receipts as well as simple records 
of matters of account. An Exchequer tally was an account 
of a sum of money lent to the government or of a sum for 
which the government would be responsible. The tally 
itself consisted of a squared rod of hazel or other wood, 
having on one side notches indicating the sum for which 
the tally was an acknowledgment. On two other sides 
opposite to each other, the amount of the sum, the name 
of the payer, and the date of the transaction were written 
by an officer called the writer of the tallies. This being 
done, the rod was then cleft longitudinally in such a man- 
ner that each piece retained one of the written sides and 
one half of every notch cut in the tally. One of these 
parts, the counterfoil or eounterstock, was kept in the Ex- 
chequer, and only the other, the stock, issued. When the 
part issued was returned to the Exchequer (usually in 
payment of taxes) the two parts were compared as a 
check against fraudulent imitation. This was called tatty 
or tatties. The size of the notches made on the tallies 
varied with the amount. The notch for 100 was the 
breadth of a thumb ; for 1 the breadth of a barleycorn 
A penny was indicated by a slight slit. 
Alas ! I cannot pay a jot ; therefore 
lie kisse the tally, and confesse the score. 
Herrick, To God. 
6172 
Have you not seen a Baker's Maid 
Between two equal Panniers sway'd? 
Her Tallies useless lie, and idle, 
If plac'd exactly in the middle : 
But, forc'd from this unactive State, . . . 
Oil either side you hear 'em clatter. 
Prior, Alma, ii. 
2. A score kept upon a notched stick or by 
other means; a reckoning; an account; a rec- 
ord as of debit and credit or of the score in a 
game. 
Though we had three deaths during the passage, as we 
also had three births, our tally remained correct, 
Nineteenth Century, XXVI. 755. 
3. A mark made to register a certain number 
of objects; one of a series of consecutive marks 
by which a number of objects are recorded or 
checked; also, a number as thus recorded; a 
number serving as a unit of computation. Thus, 
when packages of goods of uniform size and character are 
being delivered and an account of them taken, every fifth 
mark usually is called tally, and in counting aloud the 
word tally is used instead of five, after which the enu- 
meration begins again ; this is marked on a clerk's book, 
tatty being the diagonal mark ; though sometimes each 
mark is a tally, and the fifth or diagonal one is a tally of 
tatties. 
I buy turnips by the tatty. A tally 's five dozen bunches. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 92. 
As a hundred is called, one of us calls out tatty, and cuts 
one notch in a stick ; ... as every hundred goes through, 
the same process is carried on. 
Percy Clarke, The New Chum in Australia, p. 175. 
All the Indians from Fort Yukon to Big Lake on the 
White River, and from the Tan'-a-nah' to the tributaries 
of the Porcupine, . . . were drawn up in tallies, and ar- 
ranged according to families. Science, XVI. 323. 
4. A ticket or label of wood, metal, or the like 
used as a means of identification ; specifically, 
in hort., such a ticket bearing either a number 
referring to a catalogue, or the name of the 
plant with which it is connected. 
Tallies of wood [in horticulture] should be slightly 
smeared with white paint, and then written on while 
damp with a black-lead pencil. Encyc. Brit., XII. 234. 
At many pits it is customary to send the tubs of coals to 
hank with tin tallies attached, each tally bearing the num- 
ber of the " bank," or "benk," where the coal has been got 
in the mine. This tally is so that the banksmen and weigh* 
men may place the coals to the credit of the men working 
in the banks below, the banks and tallies bearing the same 
numbers. If. and Q., 7th ser., X. 297. 
5. By extension, anything corresponding to 
another as duplicate or counterpart. 
So suited in their minds and persons 
That they were fram'd the tallies for each other. 
Dryden. 
Some [friends] she must have ; but in no one could find 
A tally fitted for so large a mind. Dryden, Eleonora, L 256. 
6. An abbreviation of tally-shop By tally t, on 
credit. Game-tally. Same as ribbon, 9. Tally sys- 
tem, the system of sales on short credit, in which ac- 
counts are kept by tallies. See tally-shop, tally-trade, 
tallyman, 2. To live tally, to live together as man and 
wife without marriage. [Prov. Eng.] 
"They're liain' tally" is the way neighbours speak of 
them to inquiring visitors ; or "They've made a tally bar- 
gain." If. andQ.,nhser., X. 297. 
To make a tally bargain. Same as to live tally. [Prov. 
Eng.] To strike tally, to be alike; act in harmony. 
Fuller. 
tally 1 (tal'i), v. ; pret. and pp. tallied, ppr. tally- 
ing. [Formerly also tallie, tallee; < tally*, n. Cf . 
taift,v.] I. trans. 1. To mark or record on a 
tally; score; register. 
Three other judges are called field judges ; these mea- 
sure and tatty the trials of competitors in jumps, pole 
vaults, and weight competition. The Century, XL. 205. 
2. To reckon; count; sum: with up. 
I have not justly tallied up thy inestimable benefits. 
Up. Hall, Breathings of the Devout Soul, 4. 
[(Richardson.) 
3. To score with corresponding notches ; hence, 
to cause to conform; suit; adapt; match. 
Nor Sister either had, nor Brother ; 
They seem'd just tally'd for each other. 
Prior, An Epitaph. 
They are not so well tallied to the present juncture. 
Pope. 
4. To parallel ; do or return in kind. 
Civill Law teacheth that long custome prescribeth ; Di- 
vinity, that old things are passed ; Moral Philosophy, that 
tallying of injuries is Justice. 
Bp. Hall, Holy Observations, 50. 
5. Naut., to put aft, as the sheets or lower cor- 
ners of the mainsail and foresail. 
When they hale aft the sheate of maine or fore-sailes, 
they say, Tallee aft the sheate. 
MS. Harl. 6268. (Halliwell.) 
And while the lee clue-garnet 's lower'd away, 
Taut aft the sheet they tally, and belay. 
Falconer, The Shipwreck, ii. 
II. ill trans. 1. To correspond, as one part of 
a tally to the other ; conform ; agree. 
tally-shop 
I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with the chan- 
nel. Addison, Remarks on Italy (Works, ed. Bonn, I. 435). 
On one point Mrs. Holt's plaint tallied with his own 
forebodings, and he found them verified. 
George Eliot, Felix Holt, xxxvii. 
He declared the count must tally, or the missing ones 
be accounted for, before we would receive any more ra- 
tions. The Century, XL. 619. 
2. In basset, faro, etc., to act as banker. 
They are just talking of basset; my lord Foppington 
has a mind to tally, if your Lordship would encourage 
the table. Gibber, Careless Husband, iii. 1. (Dames.) 
"Oh," said she, "for my part, you know I abominate 
everything but pharaoh." "I am very sorry, madam," 
replied he very gravely, "but I don't know whom your 
Highness will get to tally to you ; you know I am ruined 
by dealing." 
Walpde, Letters to Mann (1748), II. 270. (Dai-ies.) 
To tally on (naut.), to catch hold of a rope and haul. 
tally 2 (tal'i), . [Abbr. of tally-ho.] Same as 
tally-ho. 
tally 2 (tal'i), v. t. Same as tally-ho. 
Being tallied too soon, he [a fox] entered the covert 
again. The Field, Dec. 6, 1884. (Encyc. Diet.) 
tally 3 ! (tal'li), adv. [< ME. tally, talliche; < tain 
+ -ly 2 .] In a tall manner, (a) Properly; fittingly; 
becomingly; finely. 
Sche went fo[r]th stille, 
& bliue in a bourde borwed boijes clothes, 
& talliche hire a-tyred tigtli ther-inne. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1706. 
(6) Stoutly ; boldly. 
Do not mince the matter, 
But speak the words plain; and you, Lodovic, 
That stand so tally on your reputation, 
You shall be he shall speak it. 
Beau, and Fl., Captain, ii. 2. 
tally-hq (tal'i-ho'), interj. [An accom. form, 
simulating ho, of F. laiant, tally-ho.] A hunt- 
ing cry: a mere exclamation. 
tally-ho (tal'i-ho'), n. [< tally-ho, interj.] 1. 
A cry of "Tally-ho." See the interjection. 
2. A four-in-hand pleasure-coach: probably so 
called from the horn blown on it. 
The mail still announced itself by the merry notes of 
the horn; the hedge-cutter or the rick-thatcher might 
still know the exact hour by the unfailing yet otherwise 
meteoric apparition of the pea-green Tally-ho or the yel- 
low Independent. George Eliot, Felix Holt, Int. 
tally-ho (tal'i-ho'), v. t. [< tally-ho, interj.] 
To urge or excite, as hounds, by crying " Tally- 
ho." 
tallyman (tal'i-man), n.; pi. tallymen (-men). 
[< tally 1 + man.] 'i. One who keeps a tally or 
score. 
With the voice of a stentor the tatty-man shouts out the 
number and sex of each calf. 
T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 862. 
2. One who keeps a tally-shop, selling goods 
on short credit, the accounts of which are kept 
by a system of tallies, without regular book- 
accounts. 
The unconscionable tallyman . . . lets them have ten- 
shillings-worth of sorry commodities, or scarce so much, 
on security given to pay him twenty shillings by twelve 
pence a week. 
Four for a Penny, 1678 (Harl. Misc., IV. 148). (Dames.) 
The pedlar tallyman is a hawker who supplies his cus- 
tomers with goods, receiving payment by weekly install- 
ments, and derives his name from the tally or score he 
keeps with his customers. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 422. 
3. One who sells by sample goods to be de- 
livered afterward, or who takes orders for 
such goods. [Eng.] 
A class of persons termed " duffers," " packmen," or 
" Scotchmen," and sometimes " tallymen," traders who go 
rounds with samples of goods, and take orders for goods 
afterwards to be delivered. 
S. Dowett, Taxes in England, III. 38. 
In the tailoring trade the worst paid work is that of the 
tallyman, who takes orders direct from the actual wearer 
without the intervention of any contractor. 
The Academy, June 29, 1889, p. 440. 
4. A man who lives with a woman without mar- 
riage. See to live tally, under tally 1 , n. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
It is probable that the terms tally-woman and tally-man 
have arisen from the usage of pit tallies as a means of 
identity in the matter of coals ; and so, figuratively, a 
man and woman living together without marriage bear 
each other's tally as a sign of temporary ownership. 
If. and Q., 7th ser., X. 297. 
tally-mark (tal'i-mark), n. One of a series of 
marks used in recording the number, as of arti- 
cles sold and delivered, usually the 5th, 10th, 
15th, etc., of a series. See taflyl, 3. 
tally-sheet (tal'i-shet), n. A sheet on which 
a tally is kept; specifically, a sheet containing 
a record of votes, as at a popular election. 
The growing disposition to tamper with the ballot-box 
and the tally-sheet. The Century, XXXVII. 622. 
tally-shop (tal'i-shop), . A shop or store at 
which goods or articles are sold on the tally 
