tallower

[Eng. tallow; -er.] *1. A tallow-chandler. 2. An animal disposed to form tallow internally. tal-low-ing, s. [Eng. tallow ; -ing .] The act, practice, or art of causing animals to gather tallow; the property in animals of forming tallow internally. tal-low-ish, adj. [Eng. tallow; -ish.] Having the properties or nature of tallow; resembling tallow. tal-low-ỹ, a. [Eng. tallow, s.;-y.] Resembling or of the nature of tallow; greasy. *tall-wood, s. [Fr. taille =a cutting; taillé =cut, and Eng. wood .] Firewood, cut in billets of a certain length. "Also, if any person offer or put to sale any tall wood , billets, faggots, or other firewood, ."-Col trop's Reports (1690). tăl-lý (1), *taille, *tal-y, s . [ Fr.taille a notch, an incision, a tally or score kept on a piece of wood, from Lat. talea =a slip of wood; Sp. taj a ; Port. talk a ; Ital taglia .] 1. A notched stick employed as a means of keeping accounts. In buying or selling it was customary for the parties to the transaction to have two sticks, or one stick cleft longitudinally into two parts, on each of which was marked with notches or cuts the number or quality of goods delivered, or the amount due between debtor and creditor, the seller keeping one stick and the buyer the other. The mode of keeping accounts by tallies was introduced into England by the Normans, 1066. Besides accounts, other records were formerly kept upon notched sticks, as almanacs, in which red-letter days were signified by a large notch, ordinary days by small notches, . Such were formerly very common in most IMG:content-0789.png:[blocks in formation] cording to Adam Smith, this species of security was at 40-60 per cent, discount, and bank-notes 20 per cent. Seasoned sticks of willow or hazel were provided, and these were notched on the edge to represent the amount. Small notches represented pence; larger, shillings; still larger, pounds; proportionately larger and wider, were 10, 100, 1,000 pounds. The stick being now split longitudinally, one piecө was given to the creditor, and the other was laid away as a record. When an account was presented for payment, the voucher was compared with the record. When paid, the tally and counter-tally were tied up together, and laid away, accumulat ing for a long series of years. The system of i uing exchequer tallies was abolished by 25 George III.. c. 82; and by 4 and 5 William IV., c. 15, the accumulated tallies were ordered to be destroyed. They were accordingly burned in a stove in the House of Lords, but the stove being over-heated, unfortunately set fire to the paneling of the room, and the Houses of Parliament were destroyed. "The price of those wooden tallies , which, according to an usage handed down to us from a rude age, were given as receipts for sums paid into the Exchequer, had risen." -Macaulay: Eng . Hist ., ch. xxii. *2. Anything made to correspond with or suit another. "So right his judgment was cut fit, And made a tally to his wit." Butler: Hudibras, III., ii. 395. 3. A label or ticket of wood or metal used in gardens for the purpose of bearing either the name of the plant to which it is attached, or a number referring to a catalogue. 4. An abbreviation of tally-shop (q. v.). 5. A certain number of cabbages. sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f