score

noun

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.

score

Aline drawn.

score

An account or reckoning; as, he paid his score.

score

An account kept of something past; an epoch; an era.

score

Debt, or account of debt.

score

Account; reason; motive. But left the trade, as many more have lately done on the same score.

score

Account; sake. You act your kindness of Cydaria’s score.

score

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.

score

verb transitive

To notch; to cut and chip for the purpose of preparing for hewing; as, to score timber.

score

To cut; to engrave.

score

To mark by a line.

score

To set down as a debt. Madam, I know when, instead of five, you scored me ten.

score

To set down or take as an account; to charge; as, to score follies.

score

To form a score in music.