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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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Peg :: Peg (v. t.) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points..

Score :: Score (v. t.) To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game..

Score :: Score (n.) The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket..

Crescendo :: Crescendo (a. & adv.) With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score..

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..

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.

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

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..

Hundred :: Hundred (a.) Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars..

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

Love :: Love (n.) Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc..

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..

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.

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

Lurch :: Lurch (n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.

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.) A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account..

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