Definition of score

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Score (v. t.) To engrave, as upon a shield..

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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.
Tick :: Tick (v. t.) To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.
Tally :: Tally (n.) A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game..
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..
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..
Single :: Single (n.) A unit; one; as, to score a single..
Twelvescore :: Twelvescore (n. & a.) Twelve times twenty; two hundred and forty.
Sixty :: Sixty (a.) Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.
Scotch :: Scotch (v. t.) To cut superficially; to wound; to score.
Score :: Score (n.) The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket..
Underline :: Underline (v. t.) To mark a line below, as words; to underscore..
Fourscore :: Fourscore (n.) Four times twenty; eighty.
Score :: 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..
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..
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..
Peg :: Peg (v. t.) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points..
Underscore :: Underscore (v. t.) To draw a mark or line under; to underline.
Tie :: Tie (v. t.) To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with..
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