King James Bible Dictionary

TALL, adjective [Eng. dally; Latin tollo.]

1. High in stature; long and comparatively slender; applied to a person, or to a standing tree, mast or pole. tall always refers to something erect, and of which the diameter is small in proportion to the highth. We say, a tall man or woman, a tall boy for his age; a tall tree, a tall pole, a tall mast; but we never say, a tall house or a tall mountain. The application of the word to a palace or its shadow, in Waller, is now improper.

Dark shadows cast, and as his palace tall

2. Sturdy; lusty; bold. [Unusual.]

TAL'LAGE

TAL'LIAGE, noun Anciently, a certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights and inferior tenants, towards the public expenses. When it was paid out of knight's fees, it was called scutage; when by cities and burghs, talliage; when upon lands not held by military tenure, hidage.

TAL'LAGE, verb transitive To lay an impost.

TAL'LIAGE, noun Literally, a share; hence, a tax or toll.

TALL'NESS, noun Highth of stature. [See Tall.]

TAL'LOW, noun A sort of animal fat, particularly that which is obtained from animals of the sheep and ox kinds. We speak of the tallow of an ox or cow, or of sheep. This substance grows chiefly about the kidneys and on the intestines. The fat of swine we never call tallow but lard or suet. I see in English books, mention is made of the tallow of hogs, [See Cyclopedia, article Tallow; ] but in America I never heard the word thus applied. It may be applied to the fat of goats and deer. The fat of bears we call bear's grease. tallow is applied to various uses, but chiefly to the manufacture of candles.

TAL'LOW, verb transitive To grease or smear with tallow

1. To fatten; to cause to have a large quantity of tallow; as, to tallow sheep.

TAL'LOW-CANDLE, noun A candle made of tallow.

TAL'LOW-CH'ANDLER, noun One whose occupation is to make, or to make and sell tallow candles.

TAL'LOWED, participle passive Greased or smeared with tallow.

1. Made fat; filled with tallow.

TAL'LOWER, noun An animal disposed to form tallow internally.

TAL'LOW-FACED, adjective Having a sickly complexion; pale.

TAL'LOWING, participle present tense Greasing with tallow.

1. Causing to gather tallow; a term in agriculture.

TAL'LOWING, noun The act, practice or art of causing animals to gather tallow; or the property in animals of forming tallow internally; a term in agriculture.

TAL'LOWISH, adjective Having the properties or nature of tallow.

TAL'LOWY, adjective Greasy, having the qualities of tallow.

TAL'LY, noun

1. A piece of wood on which notches or scores are cut, as the marks of number. In purchasing and selling, it is customary for traders to have two sticks, or one stick cleft into two parts, and to mark with a score or notch on each, the number or quantity of goods delivered; the seller keeping one stick, and the purchaser the other. Before the use of writing, this or something like it was the only method of keeping accounts, and tallies are received as evidence in courts of justice. In the English exchequer are tallies of loans, one part being kept in the exchequer, the other being given to the creditor in lieu of an obligation for money lent to government.

2. One thing made to suit another.

They were framed the tallies for each other.

TAL'LY, verb transitive To score with correspondent notches; to fit; to suit; to make to correspond.

They are not so well tallied to the present juncture.

1. In seamanship, to pull aft the sheets or lower corners of the main and fore-sail.

TAL'LY, verb intransitive To be fitted; to suit; to correspond.

I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with the channel.

TALL'Y, adverb Stoutly; with spirit.

TAL'LYING, participle present tense Fitting to each other; making to correspond.

1. Agreeing; corresponding.

2. Hauling aft the corners of the main and fore-sail.

TAL'LYMAN, noun [tally and man.] One who sells for weekly payment.

1. One who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks.