Definition of score

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Score (v. t.) To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.

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Single :: Single (n.) A unit; one; as, to score a single..
Bilk :: Bilk (n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
Scorer :: Scorer (n.) One who, or that which, scores..
Twelvescore :: Twelvescore (n. & a.) Twelve times twenty; two hundred and forty.
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..
Notch :: Notch (v. t.) To cut or make notches in ; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick..
Lurch :: Lurch (n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
Bezique :: Bezique (n.) A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points..
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..
Sixty :: Sixty (a.) Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.
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..
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..
Score :: Score (n.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.
Tie :: Tie (v. t.) To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with..
Tally :: Tally (n.) Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate..
Sixscore :: Sixscore (a. & n.) Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.
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..
Nick :: Nick (n.) A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
Run :: Run (n.) In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs..
Tick :: Tick (v. t.) To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.
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