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Score :: Score (v. t.) To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9..

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

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..

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..

Post :: Post (n.) The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt..

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..

Eighty :: Eighty (a.) Eight times ten; fourscore.

Score :: Score (n.) A weight of twenty pounds.

Opera :: Opera (n.) The score of a musical drama, either written or in print; a play set to music..

Score :: Score (v. t.) To engrave, as upon a shield..

Tie :: Tie (v. i.) To make a tie; to make an equal score.

Ninescore :: Ninescore (a.) Nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty..

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..

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..

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 (n.) An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness..

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..

Scorer :: Scorer (n.) One who, or that which, scores..

Scotch :: Scotch (v. t.) To cut superficially; to wound; to score.

Dioscorea :: Dioscorea (n.) A genus of plants. See Yam.

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