Definition of score

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

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Score :: Score (v. t.) To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.
Game :: Game (v. i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest..
Sevenscore :: Sevenscore (n. & a.) Seven times twenty, that is, a hundred and forty..
Ninescore :: Ninescore (a.) Nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty..
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..
Scotch :: Scotch (v. t.) To cut superficially; to wound; to score.
Love :: Love (n.) Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc..
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.
Sulcation :: Sulcated (a.) Scored with deep and regular furrows; furrowed or grooved; as, a sulcated stem..
Size :: Size (v. i.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book..
Tally :: Tally (n.) A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game..
Score :: Score (v. t.) To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9..
Score :: Score (n.) The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket..
Sixscore :: Sixscore (a. & n.) Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.
Lurch :: Lurch (n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
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..
Out :: Out (a.) Not in the position to score in playing a game; not in the state or turn of the play for counting or gaining scores.
Fourscore :: Fourscore (n.) The product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects.
Understroke :: Understroke (v. t.) To underline or underscore.
Tally :: Tally (v. i.) To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game..
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