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scoring


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Score  \Score\  (sk[=o]r),  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Scored} 
  (sk[=o]rd);  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Scoring}.] 
  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. 
 
  Let  us  score  their  backs.  --Shak. 
 
  A  briar  in  that  tangled  wilderness  Had  scored  her 
  white  right  hand.  --M.  Arnold. 
 
  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. 
 
  Madam,  I  know  when  Instead  of  five  you  scored  me 
  ten  --Swift. 
 
  Nor  need  I  tallies  thy  dear  love  to  score.  --Shak. 
 
  4.  To  engrave,  as  upon  a  shield.  [R.]  --Spenser. 
 
  5.  To  make  a  score  of  as  points,  runs,  etc.,  in  a  game. 
 
  6.  (Mus.)  To  write  down  in  proper  order  and  arrangement;  as 
  to  score  an  overture  for  an  orchestra.  See  {Score},  n.,  9. 
 
  7.  (Geol.)  To  mark  with  parallel  lines  or  scratches;  as  the 
  rocks  of  New  England  and  the  Western  States  were  scored  in 
  the  drift  epoch. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Scorn  \Scorn\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Scorned}  (sk[^o]rnd);  p.  pr 
  &  vb  n.  {Scoring}.]  [OE.  scornen,  scarnen  schornen  OF 
  escarnir  escharnir  See  {Scorn},  n.] 
  1.  To  hold  in  extreme  contempt;  to  reject  as  unworthy  of 
  regard;  to  despise;  to  contemn;  to  disdain. 
 
  I  scorn  thy  meat;  't  would  choke  me  --Shak. 
 
  This  my  long  sufferance,  and  my  day  of  grace,  Those 
  who  neglect  and  scorn  shall  never  taste.  --Milton. 
 
  We  scorn  what  is  in  itself  contemptible  or 
  disgraceful.  --C.  J.  Smith. 
 
  2.  To  treat  with  extreme  contempt;  to  make  the  object  of 
  insult;  to  mock;  to  scoff  at  to  deride. 
 
  His  fellow,  that  lay  by  his  bed's  side  Gan  for  to 
  laugh,  and  scorned  him  full  fast  --Chaucer. 
 
  To  taunt  and  scorn  you  thus  opprobriously.  --Shak. 
 
  Syn:  To  contemn;  despise;  disdain.  See  {Contemn}. 




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