Definition of score

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

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Set :: Set (n.) A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce..
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..
Hundred :: Hundred (a.) Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars..
Condignity :: Condignity (n.) Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence..
Sixscore :: Sixscore (a. & n.) Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.
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..
Score :: Score (v. t.) To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9..
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..
Underline :: Underline (v. t.) To mark a line below, as words; to underscore..
Underscore :: Underscore (v. t.) To draw a mark or line under; to underline.
Hogscore :: Hogscore (n.) A distance lime brawn across the rink or course between the middle line and the tee.
Score :: Score (v. t.) To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game..
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..
Size :: Size (v. i.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book..
Notch :: Notch (v. t.) To cut or make notches in ; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick..
Sevenscore :: Sevenscore (n. & a.) Seven times twenty, that is, a hundred and forty..
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 (n.) The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket..
Scorer :: Scorer (n.) One who, or that which, scores..
System :: System (n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n..
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