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Score :: Score (v. t.) To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game..

Scratch :: Scratch (v. i.) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game..

Hundred :: Hundred (n.) The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C..

Three-score :: Three-score (a.) Thrice twenty; sixty.

Score :: Score (n.) The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket..

Hundred :: Hundred (a.) Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars..

Crescendo :: Crescendo (a. & adv.) With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score..

Notch :: Notch (v. t.) To cut or make notches in ; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick..

Partition :: Partition (v.) A score.

Underline :: Underline (v. t.) To mark a line below, as words; to underscore..

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..

Sevenscore :: Sevenscore (n. & a.) Seven times twenty, that is, a hundred and forty..

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

Lurch :: Lurch (n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.

Tie :: Tie (v. t.) An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race..

Underscore :: Underscore (v. t.) To draw a mark or line under; to underline.

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..

Sixty :: Sixty (a.) Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.

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..

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