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The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.

A score for keeping an account; a reckoning. [Obs.]

To cut or make notches in ; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick.

, oboe of the chase], are names of obsolete modifications of the oboe, often found in the scores of Bach and Handel.

The score of a musical drama, either written or in print; a play set to music.

Not in the position to score in playing a game; not in the state or turn of the play for counting or gaining scores.

nt duty. "A traitor paramount." Bacon. Lady paramount (Archery), the lady making the best score. -- Lord paramount, the king.

A score. Partition of numbers (Math.), the resolution of integers into parts subject to given conditions. Brande & C.

To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points. [Colloq.]

The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt. [Obs.] When God sends coin I will discharge your post. S. Rowlands. From pillar to post. See under Pillar. -- Knight of the post. See under Knight. -- Post hanger (Mach.), a bearing for a revolving shaft,…

To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore. Sir T. Browne.

g is to quit truth for appearance. Locke. To quit cost, to pay; to reimburse. -- To quit scores, to make even; to clear mutually from demands. Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it South.

highest bid for the contract, after the opposing side has doubled. This bid increases the score for successfully making the contract, and increases the penalties for failing. The score or penalty depends on the number of tricks over or under the contract, according to a defined schedule, and depending on the vulnerabil…

dom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security. And the land had rest fourscore years. Judges iii. 30.

trumps under the condition that every trick over six taken by the successful bidder has a score value of 9; -- usually in pl.

In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs. The "runs" are made from wicket to wicket, the batsmen interchanging end…

To cut superficially; to wound; to score. We have scotched the snake, not killed it. Shak. Scotched collops (Cookery), a dish made of pieces of beef or veal cut thin, or minced, beaten flat, and stewed with onion and other condiments; -- called also Scotch collops. [Written also scotcht collops.]

To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game. [Cant, U.S.]

To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron. Scribing iron, an iron-pointed instrument for scribing, or marking, casks and logs.

es as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce.