Definition of score

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Score (n.) The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number..

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Hundred :: Hundred (a.) Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars..
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..
Score :: Score (n.) An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness..
Scribe :: Scribe (v. t.) To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
Size :: Size (v. i.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book..
Produce :: Produce (v. t.) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore..
Eighty :: Eighty (a.) Eight times ten; fourscore.
Score :: Score (n.) The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket..
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..
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..
Hogscore :: Hogscore (n.) A distance lime brawn across the rink or course between the middle line and the tee.
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..
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..
Sevenscore :: Sevenscore (n. & a.) Seven times twenty, that is, a hundred and forty..
System :: System (n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n..
Tally :: Tally (n.) To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit..
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.
Scratch :: Scratch (v. i.) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game..
Eightscore :: Eightscore (a. & n.) Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.
Twenty :: Twenty (n.) The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score..
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