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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Scorer :: Scorer (n.) One who, or that which, scores..
Size :: Size (v. i.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book..
Fourscore :: Fourscore (n.) The product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects.
Score :: Score (n.) A weight of twenty pounds.
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..
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..
Eighty :: Eighty (a.) Eight times ten; fourscore.
Scotch :: Scotch (n.) A slight cut or incision; a score.
Score :: Score (v. t.) To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.
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..
Three-score :: Three-score (a.) Thrice twenty; sixty.
Nick :: Nick (n.) A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
Set :: Set (n.) A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce..
Hogscore :: Hogscore (n.) A distance lime brawn across the rink or course between the middle line and the tee.
Condignity :: Condignity (n.) Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence..
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..
Score :: Score (n.) The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number..
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..
Game :: Game (v. i.) That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game..
Sixty :: Sixty (a.) Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.
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