scordium (skordium)

[NL.. scorel (skor), n. [ , a notch, score, scor , a score, twenty (de- noted by a long cut on a stick) (= Icel. skora = Sw. skåra = Dan. skaar , a score, notch, in- cision), sceran (pp. scoren ), cut, shear: see shearl , and cf. shorel . For a specific sense, cf. E. tally and G. kerb - holz , a tally-score, reckon- ing.] 1. A notch; a crack; a fi ure; a cleft. Than shalt thou go the dore bifore, If thou maist fynden ony score, Or hole, or reeft, whatevere it were, Than shalt thou stoupe and lay to ere If they withynne aslepe be. Rom , of the Rose , 1. 2660. [Sixteenth-century editions have shore.] 2. Especially, a notch or cut made on a tally in keeping count of something: formerly a usual mode of reckoning; also, the tally or stick itself; hence, any mark used in reckoning or keeping count. Score or tallie of wood whereon a number of things delivered is marked. Baret , Alvearie. Whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iv. 7. 38. The habitual scowl of her brow was, undeniably, too fierce, at this moment, to pa itself off on the innocent score of near-sighted ne . Hawthorne, Seven Gables, viii. mark. A letter 's like the music that the ladies have for their spinets-naething but black scores , compared to the same tune played or sung. Scott , Heart of Mid-Lothian, xxvii. Specifically, the line at which a marksman stands in target-shooting, or which forms the "scratch" or starting point in a race. In case of breech-loaders, the party called to the score shall not place his cartridge in the gun until he arrives at the score. W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 506. 9. In music, a written or printed draft or copy of a composition on a set of two or more staffs braced and barred together. In a full or orchestral score, a separate staff is a igned to each instrument and voice, so that it contains all that is indicated in all the instrumental or vocal parts taken together. A vocal or piano score is one in which the voice-parts are given in full, usually on separate staffs, while the accompaniment is condensed into two staffs for performance on a pianoforte or organ. An organ score is either the same as the last or one in which three staffs are used, as in regular organ music. A score in which more than one part is written on a staff is called short, close, or compre ed, especially in the case of four-part vocal music when written on two staffs; but these terms are also occasionally applied to an abridged or skeleton transcription. In an orchestral score the various parts are usually grouped, so that instruments of the same cla appear together. The usual arrangement is (read downward) wood wind (flutes, oboes, clarinets, ba oons), bra wind (horns, trumpets, trombones), percu ives (tympani, cymbals), upper strings (violins, violas), voices (soprano, alto, tenor, ba ), lower strings (violoncellos, double ba es); but considerable variations from this order occur. The arts of reading from a full score, and of transcribing for the pianoforte from such a score, are among the most difficult branches of musical accomplishment. Also partition. I use the phrase in score , as Dr. Johnson has explained it in his Dictionary: "A song in score , the words with the musical notes of a song annexed." But I understand that in scientific propriety it means all the parts of a musical composition noted down in the characters by which it is exhibited to the eye of the skilful. Boswell , Life of Johnson, æt. 66, note. 10. The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally, or a separate series of marks; twenty. Att South amp tone on the see es sevene skore chippes, ffrawghte fulle of ferse folke, owt of ferre landes. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3549. The munday aftyr Palme sonday I cam to Lyon, which was a long Jorney, xij scor myle and x. Torkington , Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 2. They chose divers scores men, who had no learning nor judgment which might fit them for those affairs. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 344. (at) In old archery , twenty yards: thus, a mark of twelve score meant a mark at the distance of 240 yards. Ful fifteene score your marke shall be. ing. [ME. scoren, skoren, notch, count, = Icel. skora = Dan. skaare, score; from the noun.] I. trans. 1. To make scores or cuts in or upon; mark with incisions, notches, or grooves; furrow; slash; specifically, to make a long shallow cut in (cardboard or very thick paper), so that the card or paper can be bent without breaking, as for book-covers or folded cards. Let us score their backs, And snatch 'em up, as we take hares, behind. Shak., A. and C., iv. 7. 12. The scored state of the grooves in almost every large planing machine testifies to the great amount of friction which still exists between the sliding surfaces. C. P. B. Shelley , Workshop Appliances, p. 251. 2. To incise; engrave. Upon his shield the like was also scor'd . Spenser, F. Q., I. i. 2. 3. To stripe; braid. A pair of velvet slops scored thick with lace. Middle ton, Black Book. 4. To mark or record by a cut or score; in general, to mark; note; record. Draw your just sword, And score your vengeance on my front and face. B. Jonson, Volpone, iii. 1. Or shall each leaf, Which falls in autumn, score a grief? G. Herbert , The Temple, Good Friday. An hundred Loves at Athens score , At Corinth write an hundred more. Cowley, Anacreontics, vi. IMG:content-0332.png:[blocks in formation] It was their [the crusaders'] very judgment that hereby they did both merit and supererogate, and, by dying for the cro , cro the score of their sins, score up God as their debtor. Fuller . 6. To succeed in making or winning and having entered to one's account or credit, as points, hits, runs, etc., in certain games; make a score of: as, he scored twenty runs; to score another victory. She felt that she had scored the first succe in the encounter. J. Hawthorne, Dust, p. 159. In the four games [base-ball] between New York and Chicago, New York scored 37 runs to Chicago's 31. N. Y. Evening Post , June 28, 1889. 7. In music: (a) To write out in score; transcribe. (b) Same as orchestrate: as, the movement is scored for bra and strings only. (c) To arrange for a different instrument.-8. Milit., to produce erosion of (the bore of a gun) by the explosion of large charges. - Scored pulley. See pulley. II. in trans. 1. To keep the score or reckoning; act as scorer.-2. To make points or runs in a game; succeed in having points or runs entered to one's credit or account; also, to be a winner or have the advantage: as, in the first inning he failed to score ; A struggled hard, but B scored .-3. To run up a score; be or become a purchaser on credit. It is the commonest thing that can bee for these Captaines to score and to score ; but when the scores are to be paid, Non est invent us. Heywood, Fair Maid of the West (Works, II. 275). score2t, v . A Middle English form of scour1 . scorer (skōr'er), n. [ scorel , v., + -er1.] 1. One A' would have clapped i' the clout at twelve score , and carried you a forehand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and a half, that it would have done a man's heart good to see. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iii. 2. 52. (6) Twenty pounds weight: as, a score of meal. [Ireland and West of Eng.] 11. Naut.:(a ) The groove cut in the side and bottom of a block or deadeye for the strapping to fit in. (b) A notch or groove made in a piece of timber or metal to allow another piece to be neatly fitted into it. strument used by woodmen in marking numbers, etc., on forest-trees. (b) An instrument for cutting acro the face of a board, so that it can be planed without slivering. E. H. Knight. 2. One who scores or records a score; specifically, one who keeps the score or marks the game in cricket, base-ball, a shooting-match, or the like. There is one scorer , who records the order in which contestants finish, as well as their time. The Century, XL. 206. scorer The umpires were stationed behind the wickets; the scorers were prepared to notch the runs. Dickens , Pickwick, vii. scorial (sko'ri-ä), n.; pl. scoriæ (-ē). [= F. sco rie Sp. Pg. escoria = It. scoria, The loose, rough, angular, cindery-looking fragments [of lava] are termed scoriæ. J. W. Judd , Volcanoes, p. 70. Scoria2 (skō'ri-ä), n . [NL. (Stephens, 1829).] A genus of geometrid moths, containing such as the black-veined moth, S. dealbata . scoriac (skō'ri-ak), a . Scoriaceous. [Rare.] [ scorial + -ac . ] IMG:content-0333.png:[blocks in formation]