Noah Webster
Tallage
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.