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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Tie :: Tie (v. t.) An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race..
Twenty :: Twenty (n.) The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score..
Nick :: Nick (n.) A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
Eightscore :: Eightscore (a. & n.) Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.
Fourscore :: Fourscore (n.) Four times twenty; eighty.
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..
Out :: Out (a.) Not in the position to score in playing a game; not in the state or turn of the play for counting or gaining scores.
Lurch :: Lurch (n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
Score :: Score (v. t.) To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game..
Hundred :: Hundred (n.) The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C..
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..
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..
Bilk :: Bilk (n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
Sulcation :: Sulcated (a.) Scored with deep and regular furrows; furrowed or grooved; as, a sulcated stem..
Dioscorea :: Dioscorea (n.) A genus of plants. See Yam.
Music :: Music (n.) The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.
Scotch :: Scotch (n.) A slight cut or incision; a score.
Deuce :: Deuce (n.) A condition of the score beginning whenever each side has won three strokes in the same game (also reckoned 40 all), and reverted to as often as a tie is made until one of the sides secures two successive strokes following a tie or deuce, which decides the game..
Score :: Score (n.) The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number..
Score :: Score (n.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch..
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