adj stoutly; with spirit.
2. tally ·noun a tally shop. ·see tally shop, below.
3. tally ·noun one thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
4. tally ·noun to check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
5. tally ·vi to make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game.
6. tally ·noun a notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game.
7. tally ·noun to score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit.
8. tally ·vi to be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match.
9. tally ·noun hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate.
10. tally ·noun originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, ·etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.