Score

skōr, n. a mark or notch for keeping count: a line drawn: the number twenty, once represented by a larger notch: a reckoning: a debt: the register of the various points of play in a game: account: reason: the original draught of a musical composition with all the parts, or its transcript.— v.t. to mark with notches or lines: to furrow: to set down: to charge: to engrave: to braid: to note: to enter: to make points, ., in certain games.— v.i. to keep, or to run up, a score: to succeed in making points, ., in a game.— ns. Scōr′er , one who keeps the marks in a game; Scōr′ing , the act of one who, or that which, scores: a deep groove made by glacial action: the act of repeatedly bringing a racer and his rider to the starting-point, so as to get a fair start.— Go off at score , to make a spirited start; Pay off old scores , to repay old grudges; Run up a score , to run up a debt. [A.S. scor — sceran (pa.p. scoren ), to shear.]