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Score [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

7. But left the trade, as many more have lately done on the same score

8. Account; sake.

9. You act your kindness of Cydaria's score

10. In music, the original and entire draught of any composition, or its transcript.

11. To quit scores, to pay fully; to make even by giving an equivalent.

12. A song in score the words with the musical notes of a song annexed.

Score [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

5. Madam, I know when, instead of five, you scored me ten.

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

7. To form a score in music.

Score [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

2. An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.

3. Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.

4. The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number.

5. A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.

6. A weight of twenty pounds.

7. The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket.

8. A line drawn; a groove or furrow.

9. 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.

10. To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.

Score [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally.

3. To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.

4. To engrave, as upon a shield.

5. To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game.

6. To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9.

Scored [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Notched; set down; marked; prepared for hewing.

2. In botany, a scored stem is marked with parallel lines or grooves.

Scored [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Score

Scorer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, scores.

Scoresby Encyclopedia Britannica

SCORESBY, William (1789-1857), English arctic explorer and physicist, was born near Whitby, Yorkshire, on 5th October 1789. His father, also named William, who achieved distinction as an arctic whaler, was the son of a farmer near Crompton, Lancashire, where he was born on 3d May 1760. He went to sea when he was twenty years of age, and became one of the most prominent and successful, as well as daring, of arctic whale-fishers. In 1823 he retired with an ample competency, and died in 1829. Young Scoresby made his first voyage with his father to Greenland in 1800, when he was only eleven years of age. On his return, up to 1803, he diligently pursued his education, acquiring a very fair knowledge of mathematics and navigation. From 1803 he was his father’s constant companion to the whale-fishery. On 25th May 1806, as chief officer of the “Resolution,” he succeeded in reaching 81° 30' N. in 19° E. long., the farthest point north attained by any navigator up to that date. On his return, during the following winter, Scoresby attended the natural philosophy and chemistry classes in Edinburgh university, as he did again in 1809, when he added several other subjects. In his voyage of 1807 he commenced, as in all subsequent voyages he continued, the study of the meteorology and natural history of the polar regions; among the earlier results are his original observations on snow crystals. In 1809 Professor Jameson of Edinburgh brought Scoresby’s arctic papers before the Wernerian Society of that city, of which he was at once elected a member. Soon after attaining his majority, in 1811, Scoresby was promoted to the command of the “Resolution,” and in the same year married the daughter of a shipbroker. In 1813 he changed the “Resolution” for the “Esk,” in both ...

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 21, p. 468
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