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scored |
1 definition 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.
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