Definition of score

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Score (n.) A weight of twenty pounds.

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Score :: Score (v. t.) To engrave, as upon a shield..
Score :: Score (v. t.) To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash..
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..
Nick :: Nick (n.) A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
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..
Score :: Score (n.) The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket..
Lurch :: Lurch (n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
Eightscore :: Eightscore (a. & n.) Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.
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..
Opera :: Opera (n.) The score of a musical drama, either written or in print; a play set to music..
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..
Size :: Size (v. i.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book..
Bilk :: Bilk (n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
Condignity :: Condignity (n.) Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence..
Bezique :: Bezique (n.) A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points..
Tie :: Tie (v. t.) An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race..
Tally :: Tally (n.) A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game..
Scratch :: Scratch (n.) A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.
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..
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