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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.

fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; a frame for strengthening a core or mold for a casting, etc. Spider ant. (Zoöl.) Same as Solitary ant, under Solitary. -- Spider crab (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of maioid crabs having a more or less triangular body and ten long legs. Some of the s…

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.]

An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor. Stalk borer (Zoöl.), the larva of a noctuid moth (Gortyna nitela), which bores in the stalks of the raspberry, strawberry, tomato, asters, and many other garden plants, often doing much injury.

An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core.

Capable of being succored or assisted; admitting of relief.

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.

e 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.

Same as Coreopsis.

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

A whitefish (Coregonus tullibee) found in the Great Lakes of North America; -- called also mongrel whitefish.

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