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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Score :: Score (n.) Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
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..
Hundred :: Hundred (a.) Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars..
Score :: Score (v. t.) To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game..
Sixscore :: Sixscore (a. & n.) Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.
Sixty :: Sixty (a.) Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.
Single :: Single (n.) A unit; one; as, to score a single..
Scorer :: Scorer (n.) One who, or that which, scores..
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..
Bezique :: Bezique (n.) A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points..
Opera :: Opera (n.) The score of a musical drama, either written or in print; a play set to music..
Fourscore :: Fourscore (n.) Four times twenty; eighty.
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..
Three-score :: Three-score (a.) Thrice twenty; sixty.
Underscore :: Underscore (v. t.) To draw a mark or line under; to underline.
Size :: Size (v. i.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book..
Tie :: Tie (v. t.) To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with..
Ninescore :: Ninescore (n.) The product of nine times twenty; ninescore units or objects.
Twelvescore :: Twelvescore (n. & a.) Twelve times twenty; two hundred and forty.
Tally :: Tally (n.) To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit..
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