Definition of score

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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..

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Size :: Size (v. i.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book..
Scribe :: Scribe (v. t.) To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
Peg :: Peg (v. t.) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points..
Score :: Score (n.) Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
Scratch :: Scratch (n.) A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.
Score :: Score (n.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.
Music :: Music (n.) The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.
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.
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..
Tally :: Tally (n.) A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game..
Goal :: Goal (n.) A base, station, or bound used in various games; in football, a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score; also, the act of kicking the ball over the line between the goal posts..
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..
Dioscorea :: Dioscorea (n.) A genus of plants. See Yam.
Produce :: Produce (v. t.) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore..
Condignity :: Condignity (n.) Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence..
Score :: Score (n.) The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number..
Ninescore :: Ninescore (a.) Nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty..
Underline :: Underline (v. t.) To mark a line below, as words; to underscore..
Hogscore :: Hogscore (n.) A distance lime brawn across the rink or course between the middle line and the tee.
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