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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Bezique :: Bezique (n.) A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points..
Sixty :: Sixty (a.) Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.
Tally :: Tally (v. i.) To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game..
Scored :: Scored (imp. & p. p.) of Scor.
Crescendo :: Crescendo (a. & adv.) With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score..
Peg :: Peg (v. t.) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points..
Tally :: Tally (n.) A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game..
Single :: Single (n.) A unit; one; as, to score a single..
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..
Ninescore :: Ninescore (a.) Nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty..
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..
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.
Produce :: Produce (v. t.) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore..
System :: System (n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n..
Lurch :: Lurch (n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
Score :: Score (n.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.
Score :: Score (n.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch..
Fourscore :: Fourscore (n.) The product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects.
Scribe :: Scribe (v. t.) To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
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..
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