Definition of score

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Score (v. t.) Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally..

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Game :: Game (v. i.) That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game..
Scorer :: Scorer (n.) One who, or that which, scores..
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.
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..
Dioscorea :: Dioscorea (n.) A genus of plants. See Yam.
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..
Single :: Single (n.) A unit; one; as, to score a single..
Fourscore :: Fourscore (n.) Four times twenty; eighty.
Scratch :: Scratch (v. i.) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game..
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..
Tick :: Tick (v. t.) To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.
Tie :: Tie (v. t.) To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with..
Opera :: Opera (n.) The score of a musical drama, either written or in print; a play set to music..
Tabling :: Tabling (n.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding..
Tally :: Tally (n.) Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept..
Understroke :: Understroke (v. t.) To underline or underscore.
System :: System (n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n..
Underline :: Underline (v. t.) To mark a line below, as words; to underscore..
Tally :: Tally (n.) To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit..
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