Definition of score

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Score (n.) A line drawn; a groove or furrow.

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Score :: Score (v. t.) To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game..
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.
Peg :: Peg (v. t.) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points..
Score :: Score (n.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.
Tick :: Tick (v. t.) To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.
Partition :: Partition (v.) A score.
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..
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..
Condignity :: Condignity (n.) Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence..
System :: System (n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n..
Tally :: Tally (n.) To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit..
Size :: Size (v. i.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book..
Lurch :: Lurch (n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
Score :: Score (n.) The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts..
Produce :: Produce (v. t.) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore..
Score :: Score (n.) A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account..
Understroke :: Understroke (v. t.) To underline or underscore.
Fourscore :: Fourscore (n.) Four times twenty; eighty.
Scorer :: Scorer (n.) One who, or that which, scores..
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..
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