Definition of score

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Score (n.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.

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Sevenscore :: Sevenscore (n. & a.) Seven times twenty, that is, a hundred and forty..
Run :: Run (n.) In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs..
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..
Tick :: Tick (v. t.) To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.
Game :: Game (v. i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest..
Scotch :: Scotch (n.) A slight cut or incision; a score.
Spilikin :: Spilikin (n.) One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins.
Understroke :: Understroke (v. t.) To underline or underscore.
Partition :: Partition (v.) A score.
Taille :: Taille (n.) A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood.
Eighty :: Eighty (a.) Eight times ten; fourscore.
Scorer :: Scorer (n.) One who, or that which, scores..
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..
Notch :: Notch (v. t.) To cut or make notches in ; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick..
Sixty :: Sixty (a.) Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.
Dioscorea :: Dioscorea (n.) A genus of plants. See Yam.
Underscore :: Underscore (v. t.) To draw a mark or line under; to underline.
Love :: Love (n.) Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc..
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..
Hundred :: Hundred (a.) Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars..
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