score

SCORE, noun 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, verb transitive 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.