Definition of score

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

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Fourscore :: Fourscore (n.) The product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects.
Underline :: Underline (v. t.) To mark a line below, as words; to underscore..
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 (v. t.) To engrave, as upon a shield..
Score :: Score (v. t.) Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally..
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..
Tick :: Tick (v. t.) To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.
Ninescore :: Ninescore (n.) The product of nine times twenty; ninescore units or objects.
Hogscore :: Hogscore (n.) A distance lime brawn across the rink or course between the middle line and the tee.
Produce :: Produce (v. t.) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore..
Single :: Single (n.) A unit; one; as, to score a single..
Tabling :: Tabling (n.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding..
Nick :: Nick (n.) A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
Partition :: Partition (v.) A score.
Fourscore :: Fourscore (n.) Four times twenty; eighty.
Bezique :: Bezique (n.) A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points..
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.
Tally :: Tally (v. i.) To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game..
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..
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.
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