[See -ING1.] The action of TALLY v.1, in various senses.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 486/1. Talyynge, talliacio.
1632. Sir R. Le Grys, trans. Velleius Paterculus, 168. The tallying up of the names of these able wits, who are in a sort still in our eyes, is a kinde of folly.
1893. Daily News, 14 April, 5/7. Superseding ship’s officers in the work of tallying.
b. spec. Exact correspondence.
1845–6. Trench, Huls. Lect., Ser. I. iv. 69. The curious tallying of the Old with the New.
1895. Stalker, in Expositor, Sept., 203. The tallying of events with the … predictions.
