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ever shot shuttle. Beau & Fl. A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores. Macaulay.

ifice, stratagem, or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; true. Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them. Marston. Must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue Byron. To be simple is to be great. Emerson.

A unit; one; as, to score a single.

Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.

To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.

or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins), a game played with such pieces; pushpin. [Written also spillikin, spilliken.]

Scored with deep and regular furrows; furrowed or grooved; as, a sulcated stem.

The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n.

To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.

The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding.

A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood. [Obs.] Whether that he paid or took by taille. Chaucer.

he life of a murderer. Num. xxxv. 31. Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore. 1 Tim. v. 10.

Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.

To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score. When I had got all my responsibilities down upon my list, I compared each with the bill and ticked it off. Dickens.

An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race.

following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score.

To mark a line below, as words; to underscore.

To underline or underscore. Swift.

ot pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot. Shak. We account it frailty that threescore years and ten make the upshot of man's pleasurable existence. De Quincey.

r continued movement or action; to put in order anew. "Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years." Dryden. "Thus they wound up his temper to a pitch." Atterbury. (d) To tighten (the strings) of a musical instrument, so as to tune it. "Wind up the slackened strings of thy lute." Waller.