Definition of score

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Score (n.) Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.

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Sulcation :: Sulcated (a.) Scored with deep and regular furrows; furrowed or grooved; as, a sulcated stem..
Love :: Love (n.) Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc..
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..
Produce :: Produce (v. t.) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore..
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..
Tally :: Tally (n.) Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate..
System :: System (n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n..
Twelvescore :: Twelvescore (n. & a.) Twelve times twenty; two hundred and forty.
Score :: Score (n.) The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number..
Score :: Score (v. t.) To engrave, as upon a shield..
Score :: Score (n.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.
Score :: Score (n.) Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
Yam :: Yam (n.) A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest species is D. sativa, but several others are cultivated..
Lurch :: Lurch (n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
Scribe :: Scribe (v. t.) To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
Score :: Score (n.) An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness..
Scotch :: Scotch (n.) A slight cut or incision; a score.
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..
Score :: Score (v. t.) To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game..
Tick :: Tick (v. t.) To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.
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