SCORE

noun a weight of twenty pounds.

2. score ·vt to engrave, as upon a shield.

3. score ·noun a line drawn; a groove or furrow.

4. score ·noun account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.

5. score ·vt to make a score of, as points, runs, ·etc., in a game.

6. score ·add. ·vi to run up a score, or account of dues.

7. score ·add. ·vi to keep the score in a game; to act as scorer.

8. score ·noun an account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.

9. score ·noun a distance of twenty yards;

— a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.

10. score ·noun the number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in ·pl, a large number.

11. score ·add. ·vi to make or count a point or points, as in a game; to tally.

12. score ·noun the number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket.

13. score ·vt to write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. ·see score, ·noun, 9.

14. score ·noun a notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

15. score ·noun to mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of new england and the western states were scored in the drift epoch.

xvi. score ·vt especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally.

xvii. score ·vt to mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.

xviii. score ·vt 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.

xix. score ·noun 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.