A financial record or statement; accounting. A statement of financial expenditure and receipts relating to a particular period or purpose, with…

= tally, n.1 1; hence, a score, an account. by tail, by means of tallies; on credit. (Cf. on tick.) Obsolete.

A bill, score, reckoning.

An account, a reckoning of numbers (of money given and received, etc.). Obsolete.

A calculation or account of a sum owing; a statement of charges; a bill. Also figurative.

An account or reckoning. Obsolete.

An account, reckoning. Obsolete.

A reckoning at a tavern; a tavern-bill.

A record or statement of particulars or of some fact or figure; a list; †a bill, invoice, or statement of account (obsolete).

The doorpost on which the reckoning at a tavern was kept; (hence) a record of the account or score. Obsolete.

Marking, drawing, writing, etc., with chalk; running up an account (at an alehouse, etc.); tracing out or designing.

figurative (from 1 and 2). Reckoning, score, account. Now rare.

A calculation, a reckoning; an account; a record of accounts. In later use frequently attributive.

A debit account; a score, account, reckoning.

colloquial (originally U.S.). A table, an account; a check; esp. in to keep tabs (or a tab) on; also figurative (cf. tab, v. 2). Also, a bill or…

A written record of a debt made when purchase of goods is allowed on credit. Also figurative, esp. in on the slate, on account. (See also quot. 1909.)