Definition of score

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Score (n.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.

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Condignity :: Condignity (n.) Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence..
Scratch :: Scratch (v. i.) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game..
Eighty :: Eighty (a.) Eight times ten; fourscore.
Peg :: Peg (v. t.) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points..
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..
Produce :: Produce (v. t.) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore..
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..
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..
Tie :: Tie (v. t.) To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with..
Tabling :: Tabling (n.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding..
Game :: Game (v. i.) That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game..
Tally :: Tally (n.) A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game..
Ninescore :: Ninescore (a.) Nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty..
Lap :: Lap (n.) In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game; -- so called when they are counted in the score of the following game..
Score :: Score (n.) Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
Score :: Score (v. t.) Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally..
Scotch :: Scotch (v. t.) To cut superficially; to wound; to score.
Scratch :: Scratch (n.) A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.
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..
Scorer :: Scorer (n.) One who, or that which, scores..
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