n. An Italian: as, the Tallies are working on the railroad. Dialect Notes, II. vi.n. A piece of wood on which notches or scores are cut to mark numbers, as in keeping an account or giving a receipt; loosely, anything on which a score or an account is kept.n. A score kept upon a notched stick or by other means; a reckoning; an account; a record as of debit and credit or of the score in a game.n. 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.n. A ticket or label of wood, metal, or the like used as a means of identification; specifically, in horticulture, such a ticket bearing either a number referring to a catalogue, or the name of the plant with which it is connected.n. By extension, anything corresponding to another as duplicate or counterpart.n. An abbreviation of tally-shop.To mark or record on a tally; score; register.To reckon; count; sum: with up.To score with corresponding notches; hence, to cause to conform; suit; adapt; match.To parallel; do or return in kind.Nautical, to put aft, as the sheets or lower corners of the mainsail and foresail.To correspond, as one part of a tally to the other; conform; agree.In basset, faro, etc., to act as banker.n. Same as tally-ho.Same as tally-ho.In a tall manner.Stoutly; boldly.