Definition of score

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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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Scorer :: Scorer (n.) One who, or that which, scores..
Size :: Size (v. i.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book..
Score :: Score (n.) The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number..
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 mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.
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.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.
Condignity :: Condignity (n.) Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence..
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..
Tie :: Tie (v. t.) To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with..
Twelvescore :: Twelvescore (n. & a.) Twelve times twenty; two hundred and forty.
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.
Score :: Score (n.) An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness..
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.
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..
Ninescore :: Ninescore (n.) The product of nine times twenty; ninescore units or objects.
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..
Score :: Score (n.) A weight of twenty pounds.
Ninescore :: Ninescore (a.) Nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty..
Tally :: Tally (v. i.) To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game..
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