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Definition of score

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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..

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Understroke :: Understroke (v. t.) To underline or underscore.

Bezique :: Bezique (n.) A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points..

Sevenscore :: Sevenscore (n. & a.) Seven times twenty, that is, a hundred and forty..

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..

Ninescore :: Ninescore (a.) Nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty..

Fourscore :: Fourscore (n.) Four times twenty; eighty.

Lap :: Lap (n.) In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game; -- so called when they are counted in the score of the following game..

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..

Post :: Post (n.) The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt..

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..

Tick :: Tick (v. t.) To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.

Eightscore :: Eightscore (a. & n.) Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.

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

Scribe :: Scribe (v. t.) To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.

Taille :: Taille (n.) A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood.

Game :: Game (v. i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest..

Single :: Single (n.) A unit; one; as, to score a single..

Condignity :: Condignity (n.) Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence..

Twelvescore :: Twelvescore (n. & a.) Twelve times twenty; two hundred and forty.

Tie :: Tie (v. i.) To make a tie; to make an equal score.