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Game :: Game (v. i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest..

Score :: Score (v. t.) To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.

Score :: Score (v. t.) To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash..

Twenty :: Twenty (n.) The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score..

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..

Eightscore :: Eightscore (a. & n.) Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.

Score :: Score (v. t.) To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game..

System :: System (n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n..

Crescendo :: Crescendo (a. & adv.) With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score..

Tie :: Tie (v. t.) To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with..

Lurch :: Lurch (n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.

Score :: Score (n.) The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts..

Nick :: Nick (n.) A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.

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.

Scribe :: Scribe (v. t.) To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.

Understroke :: Understroke (v. t.) To underline or underscore.

Spilikin :: Spilikin (n.) One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins.

Size :: Size (v. i.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book..

Hundred :: Hundred (a.) Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars..

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..

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