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Score :: Score (n.) Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.

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

Score :: Score (n.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.

Understroke :: Understroke (v. t.) To underline or underscore.

Sixty :: Sixty (a.) Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.

Table :: Table (v. t.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf..

Single :: Single (n.) A unit; one; as, to score a single..

Hogscore :: Hogscore (n.) A distance lime brawn across the rink or course between the middle line and the tee.

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..

Taille :: Taille (n.) A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood.

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..

Underscore :: Underscore (v. t.) To draw a mark or line under; to underline.

Condignity :: Condignity (n.) Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence..

Notch :: Notch (v. t.) To cut or make notches in ; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick..

Hundred :: Hundred (n.) The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C..

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..

Tally :: Tally (n.) To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit..

Tally :: Tally (v. i.) To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game..

Score :: Score (n.) The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number..

Underline :: Underline (v. t.) To mark a line below, as words; to underscore..

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