Definition of score

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

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Size :: Size (v. i.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book..
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..
Tabling :: Tabling (n.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding..
Twelvescore :: Twelvescore (n. & a.) Twelve times twenty; two hundred and forty.
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..
Dictyogen :: Dictyogen (n.) A plant with net-veined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenae, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceae, Smilaceae, Trilliaceae, etc..
Scotch :: Scotch (v. t.) To cut superficially; to wound; to score.
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..
Condignity :: Condignity (n.) Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence..
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..
Sixscore :: Sixscore (a. & n.) Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.
Music :: Music (n.) The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.
System :: System (n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n..
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..
Scored :: Scored (imp. & p. p.) of Scor.
Sulcation :: Sulcated (a.) Scored with deep and regular furrows; furrowed or grooved; as, a sulcated stem..
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.
Tie :: Tie (v. t.) To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with..
Tally :: Tally (n.) To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit..
Game :: Game (v. i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest..
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