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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Fourscore :: Fourscore (n.) The product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects.
Condignity :: Condignity (n.) Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence..
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..
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.
Score :: Score (v. t.) Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally..
Tally :: Tally (n.) Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate..
Score :: Score (n.) An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness..
Scribe :: Scribe (v. t.) To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
Twelvescore :: Twelvescore (n. & a.) Twelve times twenty; two hundred and forty.
Scotch :: Scotch (n.) A slight cut or incision; a score.
Dictyogen :: Dictyogen (n.) A plant with net-veined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenae, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceae, Smilaceae, Trilliaceae, etc..
Tick :: Tick (v. t.) To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.
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.
Yam :: Yam (n.) A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest species is D. sativa, but several others are cultivated..
Tabling :: Tabling (n.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding..
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..
Three-score :: Three-score (a.) Thrice twenty; sixty.
Ninescore :: Ninescore (a.) Nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty..
Score :: Score (v. t.) To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9..
Scored :: Scored (imp. & p. p.) of Scor.
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