Definition of score

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

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Love :: Love (n.) Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc..
Music :: Music (n.) The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.
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..
Twelvescore :: Twelvescore (n. & a.) Twelve times twenty; two hundred and forty.
Score :: Score (n.) An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness..
Tie :: Tie (v. i.) To make a tie; to make an equal score.
Sixscore :: Sixscore (a. & n.) Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.
Twenty :: Twenty (n.) The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score..
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..
Goal :: Goal (n.) A base, station, or bound used in various games; in football, a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score; also, the act of kicking the ball over the line between the goal posts..
Score :: Score (v. t.) To engrave, as upon a shield..
Score :: Score (n.) The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number..
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..
Scotch :: Scotch (n.) A slight cut or incision; a score.
Scotch :: Scotch (v. t.) To cut superficially; to wound; to score.
Notch :: Notch (v. t.) To cut or make notches in ; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick..
Lurch :: Lurch (n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
Underscore :: Underscore (v. t.) To draw a mark or line under; to underline.
Understroke :: Understroke (v. t.) To underline or underscore.
Score :: Score (v. t.) Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally..
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