Definition of score

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Score (n.) A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account..

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Run :: Run (n.) In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs..
Sixscore :: Sixscore (a. & n.) Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.
Post :: Post (n.) The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt..
Bilk :: Bilk (n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
Tally :: Tally (n.) Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept..
Lap :: Lap (n.) In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game; -- so called when they are counted in the score of the following game..
Sulcation :: Sulcated (a.) Scored with deep and regular furrows; furrowed or grooved; as, a sulcated stem..
Score :: Score (v. t.) To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game..
Underscore :: Underscore (v. t.) To draw a mark or line under; to underline.
Eightscore :: Eightscore (a. & n.) Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.
Table :: Table (v. t.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf..
Scratch :: Scratch (n.) A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.
Score :: Score (n.) A line drawn; a groove or furrow.
Score :: Score (n.) The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number..
Taille :: Taille (n.) A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood.
Spilikin :: Spilikin (n.) One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins.
Nick :: Nick (n.) A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
Music :: Music (n.) The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.
Single :: Single (n.) A unit; one; as, to score a single..
Twelvescore :: Twelvescore (n. & a.) Twelve times twenty; two hundred and forty.
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