Score
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
(2): ( n.) The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number.
(3): ( n.) A distance of twenty yards; - a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.
(4): ( n.) A weight of twenty pounds.
(5): ( n.) The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket.
(6): ( n.) A line drawn; a groove or furrow.
(7): ( 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.
(8): ( 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.
(9): ( n.) An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
(10): ( v. t.) Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally.
(11): ( 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.
(12): ( n.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.
(13): ( v. t.) To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.
(14): ( v. t.) To engrave, as upon a shield.
(15): ( v. t.) To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game.
(16): ( v. t.) To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9.
(17): ( v. i.) To run up a score, or account of dues.
(18): ( v. i.) To make or count a point or points, as in a game; to tally.
(19): ( v. i.) To keep the score in a game; to act as scorer.
King James Dictionary [2]
Score, n.
1. A notch or incision hence, the number twenty. Our ancestors, before the knowledge of writing, numbered and kept accounts of numbers by cutting notches on a stick or tally, and making one notch the representative of twenty. A simple mark answered the same purpose. 2. A line drawn. 3. An account or reckoning as, he paid his score. 4. An account kept of something past an epoch an era. 5. Debt, or account of debt. 6. Account reason motive.
But left the trade, as many more have lately done on the same score.
7. Account sake.
You act your kindness of Cydaria's score.
8. In music, the original and entire draught of any composition, or its transcript.
To quit scores, to pay fully to make even by giving an equivalent.
A song in score, the words with the musical notes of a song annexed.
1. To notch to cut and chip for the purpose of preparing for hewing as, to score timber. 2. To cut to engrave. 3. To mark by a line. 4. To set down as a debt.
Madam, I know when, instead of five, you scored me ten.
5. To set down or take as an account to charge as, to score follies. 6. To form a score in music.
