Real Dictionary

tally
A tally is a record of amounts or numbers which you keep changing and adding to as the activity which affects it progresses.
verb: If one number or statement tallies with another, they agree with each other or are exactly the same. You can also say that two numbers or statements tally.
verb: If you tally numbers, items, or totals, you count them.

tally in American English
a stick with cross notches representing the amount of a debt owing or paid: usually the stick was split lengthwise, half for the debtor and half for the creditor
to put on or as on a tally; record
to tally something
intransitive verb: to correspond, as one part of a tally with the other; accord or agree
noun: an account or reckoning; a record of debit and credit, of the score of a game, or the like
transitive verb: to mark or enter on a tally; register; record

tally in British English
noun: any record of debit, credit, the score in a game, etc
verb: to correspond one with the other