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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.

SCORE,

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.