Definition of score

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

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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..
Bezique :: Bezique (n.) A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points..
Partition :: Partition (v.) A score.
Notch :: Notch (v. t.) To cut or make notches in ; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick..
Nick :: Nick (n.) A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
Bilk :: Bilk (n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
Eightscore :: Eightscore (a. & n.) Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.
Scratch :: Scratch (v. i.) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game..
Hogscore :: Hogscore (n.) A distance lime brawn across the rink or course between the middle line and the tee.
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..
Sevenscore :: Sevenscore (n. & a.) Seven times twenty, that is, a hundred and forty..
Score :: Score (n.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.
Condignity :: Condignity (n.) Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence..
Score :: Score (n.) A weight of twenty pounds.
Lurch :: Lurch (n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
Scratch :: Scratch (n.) A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.
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..
Tabling :: Tabling (n.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding..
Game :: Game (v. i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest..
Ninescore :: Ninescore (n.) The product of nine times twenty; ninescore units or objects.
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