Definition of score

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Score (n.) A line drawn; a groove or furrow.

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Tally :: Tally (n.) Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept..
Eighty :: Eighty (a.) Eight times ten; fourscore.
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..
Score :: Score (v. t.) To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9..
Bezique :: Bezique (n.) A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points..
Three-score :: Three-score (a.) Thrice twenty; sixty.
Ninescore :: Ninescore (n.) The product of nine times twenty; ninescore units or objects.
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..
Scorer :: Scorer (n.) One who, or that which, scores..
Sixscore :: Sixscore (a. & n.) Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.
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..
Fourscore :: Fourscore (n.) Four times twenty; eighty.
Sulcation :: Sulcated (a.) Scored with deep and regular furrows; furrowed or grooved; as, a sulcated stem..
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..
Scratch :: Scratch (n.) A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.
Score :: Score (n.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.
Underline :: Underline (v. t.) To mark a line below, as words; to underscore..
Tally :: Tally (v. i.) To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game..
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 (n.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch..
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