(a) A slash, cut; (b) a style, fashion, manner in which cloth is cut; (c) physical appearance, shape; (d) coll. slips of wood, cuttings; also [1st quot.], ?a thicket; ?undergrowth [this word and the following ac have been construed as a single word, from teien v. & -lāc suf., with the meaning 'entanglement, ' but this seems less likely than the present explanation]; (e) cook. taille(s, the name of a dish made with cut-up fruit.

A tax; tribute [cp. taillage n.].

(a) A scored wooden stick used for financial recordkeeping, tally stick; ?~ stiche; contre ~, q.v.; (b) a tally stick used as a receipt for sums collected on behalf of the Crown; (c) a tally stick recording revenue owed the Exchequer and used by it to disburse sums owed by the Crown, with the responsibility for collecting the debt transferred to the holder of the tally stick; (d) a tally stick in general use as an instrument of credit; taken bi ~, to receive (sth.) on credit; also, make a purchase on credit [1st quot.]; (e) the record kept by scoring a tally stick; also, a contract recorded on tally sticks; bi taille(s, according to the tallied record; also, by contract; (f) ?a written loan contract; blaunk ~, a form contract or document having blank spaces to be filled in by an agent specifying the details of the transaction; (g) ~ yerdes, ?yards measured by a scored stick.

Law The arrangement under which inheritance of an estate is restricted to an heir or a class of heirs stipulated in a will or deed of gift, an entailment; also, a document establishing an entail; in (the) ~, according to the terms of the entail; in the line of succession designated by the terms of the entail.

(a) A number; everi tailes, every one; ilke (a) ~, each one; (b) in ~, by count, in number; setten in ~, to count (persons) [cp. tale n. 7.(h)].