Definition of score

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

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Score :: Score (n.) A line drawn; a groove or furrow.
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..
Ninescore :: Ninescore (n.) The product of nine times twenty; ninescore units or objects.
Score :: Score (v. t.) Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally..
Dioscorea :: Dioscorea (n.) A genus of plants. See Yam.
Score :: Score (n.) Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
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.
Tabling :: Tabling (n.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding..
Produce :: Produce (v. t.) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore..
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..
Scribe :: Scribe (v. t.) To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
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..
Scotch :: Scotch (n.) A slight cut or incision; a score.
Partition :: Partition (v.) A score.
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..
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..
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..
Scorer :: Scorer (n.) One who, or that which, scores..
Bilk :: Bilk (n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
Understroke :: Understroke (v. t.) To underline or underscore.
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