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scoren.

Brit. /skɔː/, U.S. /skɔr/
Forms: Old English scoru, Middle English–1500s scor, Middle English schore, Middle English–1500s skor, Middle English–1600s skore, Middle English Scottish scoyr, skowre, Middle English, 1600s scoure, 1500s scoore, Scottish scower, skoir, 1500s–1600s scoare, Scottish scoir, Middle English– score.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: Late Old English scoru strong feminine (sense 16), < Old Norse skor strong feminine, notch, tally, the number of twenty (compare skora weak feminine, notch) < Germanic type *skurā , < *skur- , weak grade of *sker- to cut: see shear v.
I. A cut, notch, mark.
1.
a. †A crack, crevice (obsolete); a cut, notch, or scratch; a line drawn with a sharp instrument.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > a crack or breach
chinec888
bruche?a1300
crevice1382
scar1390
scorec1400
rimea1425
riftc1425
riving1440
creekc1480
brack1524
rive1527
bruise1530
crack1530
chink1545
chap1553
riff1577
chop1578
chinker1581
coane1584
fraction1587
cranice1603
slifter1607
fracture1641
shake1651
snap1891
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > [noun] > scratching, scraping, or abrasion > a scratch or mark made by scratching or scraping
scorec1400
gall1545
rasure1596
ranch1611
rit1709
scuff1954
society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > [noun] > line > made with sharp instrument
score1570
scoring1688
race1819
hack1887
c1400 Rom. Rose 2660 Than shal thou go the dore bifore, If thou maist fynde any score, Or hole, or reft, what ever it were.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Oiiiv/1 A Skore, crenale.
a1585 Ld. Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 555 With scartes and scores, athort his frozen front.
1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 113 To procure the sap, an incision is made by two scores, an inch and a half, or two inches deep.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 783/2 To make a score on the future angles of the box in order to make the stuff bend readily.
b. Nautical and Mechanics (a) The groove of a block or dead-eye round which the rope passes; (b) a notch or groove made in a piece of timber or metal to allow another piece to be neatly fitted into it.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > tackle or purchase > [noun] > system of) pulley(s) > groove of
score1794
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > groove, channel, or cavity
mortisec1390
rabbet1453
rebate1532
scarcement?1553
riggle1555
chamfering1565
mortise hole1585
rebatement1592
chamfer1601
gain1848
score1850
champer1854
blind holes1869
chase1871
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 29 The cross-trees are let into the trestle-trees, with scores.
1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Score of a Dead-Eye, is the hole through which the rope passes.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 155 Tabling, letting one piece of timber into another by alternate scores or projections.
1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 16 A score, the width of which is equal to the siding of the post.
1901 J. Black Illustr. Carpenter & Builder Ser.: Scaffolding 89 This is called the ‘strap’ and lies in the ‘score’, or channelled part of the block.
c. local. ‘A vertical indentation in a hill; a gangway down a cliff; a cutting through a ridge of hills’ ( Eng. Dial. Dict.); spec. in East Anglia, a narrow, steep path or street leading to the sea. Used esp. in place-names. Cf. Old Norse skor in sense ‘a rift in a rock or precipice’. The place-names Syrithescore and Scourton are recorded from the 13th century and c1550 respectively (A. H. Smith, Place-Names of East Riding of Yorkshire (1937) 328; E. Ekwall, Place-Names of Lancashire (1922) 164).
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > cut through a wood or rock
trenchc1405
holleway?a1500
path1548
cut1730
hollow-way1765
score1790
shute1879
the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > chasm or cleft
chinec1050
earth-chinea1300
kinc1330
chimneyc1374
haga1400
riftc1400
refta1425
dungeonc1475
rupturec1487
gaping1539
rent1603
chasm1621
abrupt1624
hiulcitya1681
clove1779
score1790
strid1862
fent1878
1790 E. Gillingwater Hist. Acct. Lowestoft viii. 356 There are several of these passages in Lowestoft called scores, leading from the High-Street to the sea side, such as the Swan Score, Salter's Score, Rant's Score, &c.
1807 J. Grierson Delineations St. Andrews iii. 104 That space of ground which is now converted into a public walk, and known by the name of the Scores.
1835 J. D. Carrick Laird of Logan ii. 271 The hail place was in a perfect fizz..frae the head of the Causeyside till the Score.
1858 Hist. & Topogr. Handbk. Lowestoft i. 3 On the land side are many narrow streets or lanes branching off into the country; whilst seaward there are, at short intervals, steep and narrow passages down the cliff, formed into steps, and leading to the Denes. These passages are known locally and technically as Scores.
1929 H. Meredith East Anglia iii. 95 The Scores are Lowestoft's counterpart of Yarmouth's more famous Rows.
1958 East Anglian Mag. Feb. 193/1 East Anglian cities and towns have each and all their picturesque narrow ways... The scores of Lowestoft have a unique character added to their picturesqueness in that they are steep as well as narrow.
1961 Scottish Studies V. 14 The Score is the downfall of the west edge of Edinburgh Castle.
2.
a. A line drawn; a stroke, mark; a line drawn as a boundary.The sense, though in our examples not found in literal use earlier than the 16th cent., seems to be old, as the figurative phrases in b apparently belong to it.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > bounding line or surface > boundary-line
score?1553
outline1648
boundary-line1679
red line?1770
society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > [noun] > line
streakc1000
linec1475
score1681
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) iii. l. 1984 in Shorter Poems (1967) 122 Prosperite in erd is bot a dreme Or lyk as man wer steppand ouir a score [1579 Edinb. scoir].
1603 Philotus cxxv. sig. E2v Trowis thow to draw me ouir the scoir, Fals feind with thy alluring.
1681 Gib in R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. (1722) II. App. lxxiii. 80 Drawing Scores betwixt the Books of the Bible.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 144/2 Feathers of a Ducks Wing, or such like..to wipe off a superfluous score made in a draught by the Charcoal.
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 9 Feb. (1948) I. 186 It was that ugly score [foot-n. (1755) A crease in the sheet] in the paper that made me mistake.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 321 I see by ilka score and line, This chap will dearly like our kin'.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. i. 13 Draw a score through the tops of your t's.
1836 Comic Almanack 21 We've chalked a score on every door Of publican or sinner.
1859 F. Darwin Life & Lett. C. Darwin (1887) II. 171 I hope you will mark your copy with scores.
b. Phrases. †out of score, beyond the mark, excessively, unreasonably (frequent in R. Brunne); †over score, over the mark, aside.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > excessively [phrase] > excessively or immoderately
att hofelæsc1175
with unskillc1220
above (also beyond) the moonc1300
out of score1303
beyond (also above, over, without) measurea1375
out of (all) measurea1375
beyond measure1526
above (also beyond) the nock1530
out of (also without) all cry1565
out of all hoa1592
over the top1935
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > to the side or aside [phrase]
on sideOE
asiden-hand1440
asidec1460
aside-hand1471
over score1513
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 6872 Þe aumenere was wroth þerfore, Þat he asked so oute of skore.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 11225 But leuer ys me my mouþe to steke Þan y spak oȝ t oute of skore.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid i. Prol. 496 As now war tyme to schift the wers ouer scoir.
c. ? A track, trace of footsteps. Obsolete.
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society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [noun] > left by the passage of something > of a person or animal > track of footprints
scorec1330
tracesc1330
tradea1450
steppings1573
foot track1600
vestigiating1638
tracing1657
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 3377 To trauersen hem al ouer þere score, & passe þe Romayns wel byfore.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 13694 After hym his folk held wel þe score.
3.
a. spec. The ‘scratch’ or line at which a marksman stands when shooting at a target, or on which the competitors stand before beginning a race.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > [noun] > shooting-range > position for firing
score1513
firing point1807
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting or finishing mark > starting mark
score1513
starting place1570
goal1589
barrier1600
lists1601
starting post1631
scratch1772
starting line1812
mark1887
start line1908
gate1928
mobile1969
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. vi. 70 He suld full sone haue skippit furth befoir And left in dowt quha first coyme to the scoir.
1570 R. Sempill Maddeis Proclamatioun (single sheet) Stand to thairfoir, fyle not the scoir, But all togidder draw.
c1880 in W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. (1881) 506 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.
b. Phrases. to go off (set off, start) at score, of a horse, to make a sudden dash at full speed; figurative of a person, to break out suddenly into impetuous speech or action. So to go off full score, to keep on at a score.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] > suddenly
flash1608
to go off (set off, start) at score1807
the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > begin to speak volubly
to go off (set off, start) at score1807
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move with impetuous speed
leapOE
swengec1000
swingOE
throwc1275
hurla1300
dashc1300
fling1300
stetec1330
lance?a1400
slinga1400
whirlc1400
wringc1400
dingc1450
whither1487
chop1555
to cast (also lay) one's heels in one's neck1599
clap1603
precipitate1622
teara1627
toss1727
to keep on at a score1807
whing1882
whirlwind1894
to go off full score1900
careen1923
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [verb (intransitive)] > gallop > make short or sudden dash
career1594
to go off (set off, start) at score1807
to keep on at a score1807
rocket1862
to go off full score1900
1807 E. Goulburn Epwell Hunt 117 Resolv'd at all Hazards to follow Bob Canning; To accomplish which End he kept on at a Score.
1809 R. Cumberland John de Lancaster II. 95 John and his steed were in the same humour for a start at score.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 123 Madge had no sooner received the catch-word, than she vindicated Ratcliffe's sagacity by setting off at score with the song: ‘O sleep ye sound, Sir James, she said’.
1833 T. Moore Mem. (1854) VI. 309 Talking of a paragraph lately which stated that all the Church dignitaries meant to resign.., he went off at score on the sad state we should be reduced to by such a resignation.
1834 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. 35 1016 Start at score and make play we must, if we were now to resume the contest.
1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) vi. 49 Lest the black-eyed should go off at score and turn sarcastic.
1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting iii. 64 His horse, Blesbok, went off at score, and followed the spoor as accurately as any dog.
1867 M. Arnold On Study Celtic Lit. 71 After the mediæval touch of the visit to the buttery in the land of the Trinity, he goes off at score: ‘I have been instructed in the whole system of the universe [etc.]’.
1869 ‘W. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. xxxiv The slackened rein..encouraged the gray to take a final kick and fling, and then set off at score up the slope.
1900 F. T. Pollok & W. S. Thom Wild Sports Burma & Assam iii. 99 The bull picked himself up and went off full score.
c. Curling. = hog score n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > [noun] > area of ice > distance line
hoga1772
hog score1787
score1862
hog line1891
1862 Chambers's Encycl. III. 368/2 [article Curling] At a certain distance from each of the tees, a score—the hog-score—is drawn across the ice.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 713/2 [article Curling] Every stone to be a hog which does not clear this score.
4. A line that crosses out or cancels something.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > device for erasing > line
scorea1730
a1730 A. Pennecuik Coll. Pennicuicke's Satires on Kirkmen (1744) 7 My roll of sins hath got the clergy's score.
5. plural as the name of a game. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [noun] > others
sitisota1400
papsea1450
half-bowl1477
pluck at the crow1523
white and black1555
running game1581
blow-pointa1586
hot cocklesa1586
one penny1585
cockelty bread1595
pouch1600
venter-point1600
hinch-pinch1603
hardhead1606
poor and rich1621
rowland-hoe1622
hubbub1634
handicap?a1653
owl1653
ostomachy1656
prelledsa1660
quarter-spellsa1660
yert-point1659
bob-her1702
score1710
parson has lost his cloak1712
drop (also throw) (the) handkerchief1754
French Fox1759
goal1765
warpling o' the green1768
start1788
kiss-in-the-ring1801
steal-clothes1809
steal-coat1816
petits paquets1821
bocce1828
graces1831
Jack-in-the-box1836
hot hand1849
sparrow-mumbling1852
Aunt Sally1858
gossip1880
Tambaroora1882
spoof1884
fishpond1892
nim1901
diabolo1906
Kim's game1908
beaver1910
treasure-hunt1913
roll-down1915
rock scissors paper1927
scissors cut paper1927
scissors game1927
the dozens1928
toad in the hole1930
game1932
scissors paper stone1932
Roshambo1936
Marco Polo1938
scavenger hunt1940
skish1940
rock paper scissors1947
to play chicken1949
sounding1962
joning1970
arcade game1978
1710 T. Ruddiman in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneis (new ed.) Gloss. at Skore The word score, is..most used at the long Bowls, which are sometimes call'd the Scores, because they make draughts or impressions in the ground where they are to begin and leave off.
6.
a. Music. A written or printed piece of concerted music, in which all the vocal and instrumental parts are noted on a series of staves one under the other.Commonly stated to be so called from the practice (not now always followed) of connecting the related staves by ‘scores’ or lines continuing the bars.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > score
partition1597
score1701
music scorea1750
chart1957
society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > harmonized or concerted piece
symphonask1621
symphona1691
score1701
1701 London Gaz. No. 3748/4 The Score of Musick for the Fairy Queen.
1752 C. Avison Ess. Musical Expression Advt. Music is said to be in Score, when all the Parts are distinctly wrote and set under each other, so as the Eye, at one View, may take in all the various Contrivances of the Composer.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 360 He..sells accent, tone And emphasis in score.
1785 King George III in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. III. 247 The King has just received the copies of the three operas Mrs. Delany so obligingly borrow'd for him. He therefore returns the three scores.
1845 E. Holmes Life Mozart 13 This concerto was written with a full score of accompaniments, and even trumpets and drums.
1883 W. S. Rockstro in Grove Dict. Music III. 427/1 The most important varieties [of scores] are (I.) the Vocal Score; (II.) the Orchestral, or Full Score; (III.) the Supplementary Score, or Partitino; (IV.) the Organ, Harpsichord, or Pianoforte Score; (V.) the Compressed Score; and (VI.) the Short Score.
1883 W. S. Rockstro in Grove Dict. Music III. 434/1 The term Short Score is indiscriminately applied to Organ and Pianoforte Scores of works originally written with Orchestral Accompaniments; to Compressed Scores; and to maimed transcriptions, in which the leading Parts only are given in extenso.
b. A musical composition with its distribution of parts.
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1881 F. J. Crowest Phases Mus. Eng. 295 The London Musical Society has set itself the task of familiarising English people with those scores which are either little known, or which have not had a hearing in this country.
c. spec. (A piece of) music composed for a film; the musical part of the sound-track of a film; formerly, the background music and effects of a silent film.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > background music
incidental music1864
score1927
background1928
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun] > sound track > musical part of
score1927
1927 Kinematograph Year Book 32 Scores to films can be recorded by the world's greatest orchestras, under the baton of conductors impossible to obtain for motion picture houses.
1935 R. Spottiswoode Gram. of Film v. 191 The score composed by Edmund Meisel for Ten Days.
1957 A. R. Manvell & J. Huntley Technique Film Music i. 23 Among the more celebrated film score..are those by Edmund Meisel for Eisenstein's films The Battleship Potemkin and October.
1965 Movie Summer 40/2 Jerry Bresler had re-edited the film..adding a score that was far from Peckinpah's choosing.
1976 R. Sanders in D. Villiers Next Year in Jerusalem 212 Irving Berlin..wrote the best over-all score of his career, Annie Get Your Gun.
7. Weaving. = beer n.3
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven > thread(s) > weft
woofc725
score1712
1712 J. Beaumont Math. Sleaing Tables 40 Every weaver should be obliged to run a coarse coloured thread through every forty threads in the breadth of the cloth to mark the beers or scores.
1726 Act 13 Geo. I c. 26 §13 So as to distinguish the Number of biers or scores of Threads in the breadth of the said Cloth.
8. A cut or slash, as with a whip.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > blow struck with an object or instrument > with something pliant
lashc1330
lashingc1400
jerking1552
jerk1555
whipping1577
slive1589
whissc1590
scutch1611
scutching1611
switchinga1640
cut1787
sliver1806
switch1809
welt1863
score1882
1882 J. T. Morse John Q. Adams (1885) iii. 230 There was scarce a back in Congress that did not at one time or another feel the score of his cutting lash.
II. Notch cut for record, tally, reckoning.
9.
a. A notch cut in a stick or tally, used to mark numbers in keeping accounts; also the tally itself.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > tally > notch cut in
scorec1460
notch1565
round O1625
the world > relative properties > number > mathematical instruments > [noun] > arithmetical instrument > tally or reckoning stick
stick?c1430
tallyc1440
score1565
nick-stick1658
tally-stick1830
c1460 Launfal 419 All that Launfal had borwyth before Gyfre, be tayle and be score, Yald hyt well and fyne.
a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 416 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 312 Yf þo koke wolde say þat were more, Þat is þo cause þat he hase hit in skore.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 268/1 Score on a tayle, taylles.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Crenæ,..the scores, whiche men vnlerned do make on styckes for their remembrance.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Crena, a notche in a skore.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Tessera,..a tayle or score, wheron the number of thynges deliuered is marked.
1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iv. vii. 33 All writing..be put downe, And nothing vsde but the score and the Tally.
b. Games. A mark made for the purpose of recording a point or the like. Cf. chalk n. 5.
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society > leisure > sport > recording score > [noun] > mark made
chalk1674
score1680
1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) 102 Lanterloo... Having dealt set up five scores or chalks; and then proceed forwards in your Game.
1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) 102 Every deal rub off a score, and for every trick you win set up a score by you till the first scores are out, to remember you how many tricks you have won in the several deals in the Game.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod ii. iii. 84 It is called a run, and one notch or score is made upon the tally towards the game.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. vii. 203 One chalk, or score, is reckoned for every fair pin; and the game of skittles consists in obtaining thirty-one chalks precisely.
10.
a. A record or account (of items of uniform amount to be charged or credited) kept by means of tallies, or (in later use) by means of marks made on a board (with chalk), on a slate, or the like. Now chiefly, the row of chalk marks on a door, or of strokes on a slate, which in rural alehouses used to serve to record the quantity of liquor consumed on credit by a regular frequenter. Hence occasionally transferred, a customer's account for goods obtained on credit.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun]
accountc1300
counta1350
scorea1400
audit?1550
tally1580
state1582
memorandum1583
ticket1632
tick1681
a/c1736
financial statement1789
balance sheet1838
tab1889
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > other types of accounts
calends of exchangec1374
scorea1400
pipe1455
mensalc1475
profit and loss1553
stock1588
bank account1671
lump-account1699
revenue account1703
profit and loss account1721
sundry1736
drawing account1737
stock account?1768
private account1772
trading account1780
Flemish account1785
capital account1813
embankment1813
cost account1817
cash-credit1832
current account1846
savings account1850
deposit account1851
suspense account1869
control account1908
checking account1923
ghost account1933
numbered account1963
budget account1969
ISA1975
MSA1993
a1400 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 362 Ȝif þæt þe axkere bryngeþ skore oþer wryt, and aske þe berynge y-hole-cheche... Whos paye y-maked by skore oþer by scryt oþer by sywete, so þt he bere tayle oþer scryt, to preue hit vp-on hure nature.
c1421 26 Pol. Poems 119 Þe fendes redy my rolle to rede, Þe countretayle to shewe, þe score.
c1450 Mirk's Festial 255 And he anon radly laft all his scores, and cownturs, and his bokes, and suet Cryst forþe.
1483 Cath. Angl. 324/1 A score, epimeridia.
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Tablilla Writing tables, a score.
1614 Ravenscroft in W. Sandys Festive Songs (1848) 40 When all is gone we have no more, Then let us set it on the score, Or chalke it up behinde the dore.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. ii. 75 There shall bee no mony, all shall eate and drinke on my score . View more context for this quotation
1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 17 The stones that on his Tombe doe lye, Keepe but the score of them that made him dye.
1701 Laconics (new ed.) iii. 111 He ought to have Preach'd against..Rubbing out of Ale-house Scores.
1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) II. i. 9 A familiar visitor of the house, who might be supposed to have his regular score at the bar.
1867 J. R. Lowell Fitz Adam's Story 388 These paid no money, yet for them he..chalked behind the door With solemn face a visionary score.
1887 A. Jessopp Arcady i. 19 Formerly every man had a score at the village shop.
b. in, upon, on (the) score: in debt. to run into scores or in score, to run or go on or upon (the) score: to incur debts. upon the score of: indebted to. Also on score, upon the score: on credit. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [adverb] > on credit
to fristc1440
on (also upon, of) trust1509
on (also upon) credit1560
in, upon, on (the) score1568
on time1628
on or upon (the) tick1642
upon the tally1807
on the nod1882
on the slate1909
on the cuff1927
on the knocker1934
society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > be solvent [verb (intransitive)] > take credit
creancec1386
to run into scores or in score1568
to run or go on or upon (the) score1568
score1594
to build a sconce1630
tick1648
to chalk ita1704
society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [adverb]
in debtc1330
in, upon, on (the) score1568
in the red1907
in (occasionally the) hock1913
1568 U. Fulwell Like wil to Like E ij But now my masters you are on the score.
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande iii. f. 11/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The citie merchants not vttering their wares, but to such as had not redy chinckes, and theruppon forced to run on ye score, were very much empouerished.
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. G If any chaunce to go on the skore you skore him when he is a sleepe.
1602 S. Rowlands Tis Merrie 11 There's many deale vpon the score for wine, When they should pay forget the Vint'ners Syne.
1615 R. Cocks Diary (1883) I. 57 He had stolne and pawnd his companions aparell,..and was gon upon the score in divers howses.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) Induct. ii. 22 If she say I am not xiiii.d. on the score for sheere Ale, score me vp for the lyingst knaue in Christendome. View more context for this quotation
1633 G. Herbert Size in Temple iv Those have their hopes: these what they have renounce, And live on score.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης v. 42 He had..begger'd both himself and the Public; and besides had left us upon the score of his needy Enemies, for what it cost them in thir owne defence against him.
1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions i. vii. 66 Seneca reports of a Pythagorean Philosopher at Athens, who having run upon the score for his shoos at a shop there [etc.].
1658 H. Cromwell Let. 24 Feb. in Coll. State Papers J. Thurloe (1742) VI. 820 The country, to whom the army is in score, will be all in a flame.
1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 79 'Tis become so fashionable a thing to run into Scores, and so unfashionable to pay them, that he is scarce thought well bred, that has not bankrupted one at least of each Trade he deals with.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 30 Dec. (1974) VIII. 600 He..is known there and doth run upon the score for plays.
1702 T. Yalden Æsop at Court iii. 11 See, injur'd Britain, thy unhappy Case,..If fond of the Expensive pain, When eighteen Millions run on Score: Let them clap Mufflers on again, And Physick Thee of Eighteen more.
a1706 J. Evelyn Life Mrs. Godolphin (1939) 98 Every Saturday she us'd to Summ-up, and never went on Score.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 286 I..drank while I had money left, and run in score when any body would trust me.
c. In colloquial phrases, as to go over the score (chiefly Scottish): to act (esp. drink) immoderately; to have a few over the score (see few adj., pron., and n. Phrases 2c): to drink more at one time than one should.
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1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess ii. 100 She thinks ye hae ga'en o'er the score.
1851 W. Anderson Rhymes 50 Lest some o' the nickums should gang owre the score.
1915 J. L. Waugh Betty Grier 157 He gangs fairly ower the score baith wi' drinkin' himsel' an' treatin' ithers.
1951 N. M. Gunn Well at World's End xviii. 145 ‘You know how, when you have had a few over the score and you may not trust your legs, your brain remains as clear—’ ‘I know,’ said Peter.
11.
a. The sum recorded to a customer's debit in a ‘score’ (sense 10); the amount of an innkeeper's bill or reckoning. Also, †a debt due to a tradesman for goods obtained on credit (obsolete).
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society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > a debt > debt owed to tradesman for goods
score1600
book debt1644
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > entry in
brevementc1475
brument?1523
tot1529
score1600
ledger-entry1682
post1718
post entry1798
post1832
journal-entry1836
1600 Ball. Coll. Acc. (MS) Item, paid to Warde the Baker for 2 skores dewe in Mr. More's yeare, 8 li. 18 s. 9 d.
1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 133 Chauke me on Vinters, and for aw thy skore, Let great words pay for aw, still run on more.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 229 After he scores, he neuer payes the score. View more context for this quotation
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. S7v Or how to pay thy Hinds, and cleere All scores.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 6 Apr. (1974) VIII. 153 Away..to the Exchange and mercers and drapers, up and down to pay all my scores.
1676 R. Kidder Charity Directed 31 How often do men contend at a Tavern who shall pay the score.
1677 T. Otway Cheats of Scapin ii. i, in Titus & Berenice sig. G4 Some Scores that are due to his Landlady.
1687 C. Sedley Bellamira v. i. 53 I have been in the Country, and have brought wherewith to pay old Scores, and will deal here~after with ready Mony.
1701 in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1870) IX. 79 Hasten over rents, and all thou canst, for many call upon me for old scores.
1715 M. Prior Down-Hall 96 When in the morning Matt ask'd for the score, John kindly had paid it the evening before.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. ix. 58 After having paid our score.
1761 Brit. Mag. 2 626 He had run a score at the public house, which he had no mind to discharge.
1766 W. Cowper Wks. (1837) XV. 9 If..you think I can afford to quit scores with the little Doctor, I shall be obliged to you if you will do it forthwith.
1807 W. H. Ireland Stultifera Navis 236 Or, when in school, neglecting book, Or, running scores with pastry cook, That breech should feel the twitch of birch.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 230 I agreed that he should pay the score at our next meeting.
1886 Contemp. Rev. July 80 The week's score at the public-house is paid up and a fresh one started.
b. figurative, esp. in certain phrases. to clear, pay, quit a score or scores: to requite an obligation; sometimes, to revenge an injury, to ‘be even with’ some one. †to cut the score, to cut scores: to forgive a debt. Also to pay off, rub out, etc., old scores.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > [noun] > an immaterial debt
debtc1386
devoirc1386
scorea1617
society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > do one's duty [verb (intransitive)] > requite an obligation
to clear, pay, quit a score or scoresa1617
society > trade and finance > payment > payment of debt > pay debt [verb (intransitive)] > release from payment
to cut the scorea1617
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > even or be even with
to clear, pay, quit a score or scores1707
even1856
a1617 P. Baynes Entire Comm. Epist. Paul to Ephesians (1643) (ii. 3) 209 God cuts all scores betwixt him and his children.
1634 H. Sydenham Serm. (1637) 70 That that Justice which is conferr'd on them, consists rather in the participation of Christs merits, who cut the score, than in any perfection of Vertues.
1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada ii. v. ii. 147 Yet, forced by need, e're I can clear that score, I, like ill debtors, come to borrow more.
1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. i. ix. §90 To the Grandfather, there is due a long Score of Care and Expences laid out upon the Breeding and Education of his Son.
1707 J. Norris Pract. Treat. Humility vi. 252 Which she readily accepts, and perhaps does not make so much haste to quit scores, as Pride does.
1775 R. B. Sheridan St. Patrick's Day i. i Are you sure you do nothing to quit scores with them?
1787 J. Wolcot Ode upon Ode (ed. 5) 25 A pretty Way of rubbing out old Scores!
?1863 T. Taylor Ticket-of-leave Man iii. 56 There's the satisfaction of doing one's duty..but there's something better than that... Paying off old scores.
1913 E. Phillpotts Widecombe Fair xxx. 236 This evening..promised good opportunity to pay off old scores.
1918 L. Strachey Eminent Victorians 67 The old scores, they found, were not to be paid off, but to be wiped out.
12. [Originally a figurative use of sense 10] Account, reason, ground, sake, motive. In phrases on, upon the score (of): by reason of, for the sake of, with regard to.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > [adverb] > in relation or with reference to or concerning
forasmuch1297
as to1340
as fora1393
nentesa1400
accordingc1430
as respects1543
in (also with) relation to1551
relatively1609
quoad1622
referently1650
on, upon the score (of)1651
on account of1653
schetically1678
with a view to1692
apropos1749
as regards1797
in the matter of1881
in aid of1918
wise1942
1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 346 I presume not to expect this for my own sake and meerly upon the score of Christian love.
1654 D. Dickson Brief Explic. Psalmes cxxix. 2. 263 The persecution of former enemies is imputed and put upon the score of present persecutors.
1655 in C. H. Firth Clarke Papers (1899) III. 3 The House of Peeres was never yet denied by them to be dissolved upon the like scoare.
1661 R. Boyle Some Consider. Style of Script. (1675) 244 Divers that first believe the Scripture but upon the Church's score, are afterwards by acquaintedness brought to believe the Scripture upon its own score.
1667 J. Dryden Indian Emperour i. ii. 12 I could not do it on my Honours score.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1651 (1955) III. 40 Some men he had raised, who..were all..imprison'd on the Marq: of Montrosses score, he not knowing any thing of their barbarous murder of that Hero.
1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 33 By reason..their great Grandfather did not do it, upon that old Score they think they ought not to do it.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 226 Men..began to be over-easie upon that Score.
1751 Affecting Narr. H.M.S. Wager 47 The Crew..were however on that Score implacably incensed against the Captain.
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 51 All persecution and oppression of weak consciences, on the score of religious persuasions, are highly unjustifiable.
1802 J. West Infidel Father I. 231 An eminent solicitor..whom it was fashionable to consult on the score of settlements.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. x. 126 It was necessary to summon a parliament on the usual score of obtaining money.
1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest II. iv. 80 Master Heatherstone knows more on that score than any one.
1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty iv. 165 Other countries are not asked to..release any portion of their inhabitants from their own laws on the score of Mormonite opinions.
1883 F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius iv. 59 You have some right to flatter yourself on that score.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xlvi. 198 That spirit of faction which..disposes the men on one side to reject a proposal of the other side on the score, not of its demerits, but of the quarter it proceeds from.
1907 J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (ed. 6) 13 Much trouble on this score will be avoided.
13. A list, enumeration; number as counted. Also by score: (after a numeral) by tale, precisely so many. Obsolete.
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society > communication > record > list > [noun]
tableOE
scorec1325
billa1340
calendar?a1400
legendc1400
librarya1450
Ragmanc1450
Ragman rollc1450
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repertory1542
scrowa1545
bedroll?1552
roll1565
file1566
state1582
inventory1589
brief1600
series1601
counter-roll1603
list1604
muster roll1605
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album1753
tableau1792
roll-call1833
shopping list1923
laundry list1958
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [adverb] > with respect to size or number
by scorec1325
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c1325 Chron. Eng. 253 in J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës (1802) II That were sixti yer by score Er then Crist were ybore.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. III. v. viii. sig. Qqqq.ij/2 So yt hereby we may iudge what great store ye Lord setteth by infants, and learne not to wype them out of the skoare of Gods people.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) xxx. iii Thou would'st not sett me in their score, Whom death to his cold boosome drawes.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. ix. sig. Gg5v My lambes doe euery yeare increase their score . View more context for this quotation
14.
a. Games. The record or register of points made by both sides during the progress of a game or match; also the number of points made by a side or individual. to get the score: to obtain the highest number of runs (in a cricket-match).
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society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > gaining points > score
score1742
result1802
tally1856
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > score highest number of runs
to get the score1862
top-score1960
1742 E. Hoyle Short Treat. Game Whist 8 If a Revoke happens to be made, the adverse Party may take down 3 Points from the Scores, or add 3 Points to his own Score, or take 3 of his Adversary's Tricks; the Revoke takes place of any other Score of the Game.
1742 E. Hoyle Short Treat. Game Whist 68 This Method of Play may be made use of at any Score of the Game, except at 4 and 9.
1778 E. Hoyle Games 74 Score of the Game is the Number of Points set up, ten of which make a Game.
1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 59 The care of the score [at billiards] was solely confided to the charge of the tall gentleman in the stockinet pantaloons.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) vii. 69 The score of the Dingley Dellers was as blank as their faces.
1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (rev. ed.) 98 It was on this occasion..that Mr. Ward obtained the unprecedented score of 278 runs in one innings.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. xiv. 260 It was true that she liked keeping the score at cricket.
1862 Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket Scores & Biogr. Cricketers I. 20 Hogsflesh (by the score) bowled in the second innings of Kent, but he is not inserted among the batsmen on the Hambledon side.
1862 Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket Scores & Biogr. Cricketers I. 225 John Small, sen. who got the score in the second innings of Hampshire.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. x. 184 The belief in both naturally grew stronger as the shooting went on, for she promised to achieve one of the best scores.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 578/2 [article Cricket] The score was kept by notching each individual run on a stick.
1883 R. W. Dixon Mano ii. viii. 95 The town in this game made the losing score.
b. to make a score off one's own bat: see bat n.2 3c.
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1868 A. Trollope He knew he was Right (1869) I. xii. 95 Do you know the meaning of making a score off your own bat, Martha?
c. transferred. Psychology. A numerical record of the marks allotted to individuals in the measurement of abilities, capacity to learn, or in the assessment of personality.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > test of mental ability > test rating > [noun]
score1910
1910 E. L. Thorndike in Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. XXI. 485 (caption) Scores reduced to single variables by allowance for examples wrong.
1929 F. N. Freeman in C. Murchison Found. Exper. Psychol. xviii. 722 These two measures..do not give the same learning curve, or the same curve when the scores are plotted by ages or grades.
1951 T. Hunt in J. S. Gray Psychol. in Use (rev. ed.) x. 421 This test underwent extensive validation by study of the relationship between the test scores of students and their subsequent performance in the medical schools.
1977 P. J. Dunham Exper. Psychol. ix. 240 A score of 10 representing a very anxious individual.
d. figurative. The essential point or crux of a matter; the state of affairs, the (present) situation; how matters stand; the full facts (about, on, etc. someone or something); frequently in phrases, as to know the score; to ask, realize, etc., what the score is; what's the score; etc. colloquial.
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society > communication > information > [noun]
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learningc1386
information1390
knowledgea1398
witteringa1400
witting1417
advicec1425
hearinga1450
understanding1473
intelligence?a1475
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instructiona1535
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > [noun] > state of affairs or situation
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > [noun] > state of affairs or situation > existing state of affairs or status quo
status quo1719
score1938
1938 D. Nowinson in Better English Oct. 8/1 Dope..a guy who doesn't know the score.
1939 Time 16 Oct. 101/2 But when Holger begins to long for home and daughter, Anita, realizing what the score is, runs off to Paris to study.
1948 G. H. Johnston Death takes Small Bites i. 16 Why don't you speak to some people who can really tell you the score?
1950 E. Hemingway Across River & into Trees xxxiii. 250 It leaves a core of certain un-killed characters who know what the score is.
1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie xii. 121 I asked Ike what the score was on pushing in Mexico city. He said it was impossible.
1958 P. Kemp No Colours or Crest iv. 68 You were fully justified in breaking off the action when you did, in view of the score at the time.
1958 P. Scott Mark of Warrior ii. 176What's the score about Havildar Baksh?’ ‘He's a prisoner.’
1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself iii. 234 I was out of fashion and that was the score; that was all the score.
1962 J. D. Salinger Franny & Zooey 167 You've been around schools long enough to know the score.
1971 N. Stacey Who Cares? xvii. 284 At least he had the courage to tell me the score as far as I was concerned, so that I did not waste time yearning and hoping.
1977 A. Scholefield Venom iii. 86 You didn't ask the Boss what the score was, he told you.
15. colloquial. [ < the verb.]
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a. literal in games: An act of ‘scoring’ or gaining a point or points.
b. figurative. A successful ‘hit’ in debate or argument.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > one who or that which is successful > that which is successful > a successful stroke
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1844 E. R. Mardon Billiards 94 For should he play it slowly and miss the score, he will..leave a certain canon for his opponent.
1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 301 This position gives the striker such command over the balls that it is almost impossible not to leave a score.
1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 386 A miss should be given so as to leave a difficult score for the adversary.
1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 675/2 [article Billiards] No score can be reckoned for a foul stroke.
1901 Scotsman 15 Mar. 7/4 A loud cheer signified that..this was a distinct score.
1901 S. Paget Mem. Sir J. Paget ii. 407 An admirable ‘score’ that he made at Harewood Place.
c. The money or goods obtained by means of a successful crime. Criminals' slang.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun]
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thievery1583
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1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 74.
1930 D. Runyon in Collier's 13 Sept. 7/4 We have a business proposition for Big Butch. It means a nice score for him.
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid ii. 20 ‘I had it off last week,’ he said with a wink, ‘not a big job, just a little snout gaff, but I earned myself a score.’
1956 H. Kurnitz Invasion of Privacy xi. 76 He's just a few months out of the jug and he hasn't turned a trick or made a score anywhere.
1977 New Yorker 22 Aug. 38/1 A million dollars from a computer crime is considered a respectable but not an extraordinary score.
d. The action or process of obtaining a supply of narcotic drugs; a supplier of narcotic drugs. Cf. score v. 16d slang (originally U.S.).
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > obtaining drugs
score1951
scoring1967
society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in narcotics
score1951
horse-trader1963
street people1969
society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of illicit drugs
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drug peddler1889
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drug trafficker1912
dope-merchant1921
junker1922
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1951 Nat. Educ. Assoc. U.S. Jrnl. May 342/2 They are anxious to make a ‘connection’, ‘score’ or ‘hit’.
1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie x. 97 ‘It's hard to find a score now,’ I said. ‘Most of them have gone away.’
1976 M. Deakin & J. Willis Johnny go Home ii. 47 The whole day passes..going from fix to score, to ripping off enough money to support the habit.
e. A prostitute's client (cf. score v. 16f); also in homosexual use. slang.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > frequenting prostitutes > one who > prostitute's client
punk-master1612
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1961 J. Rechy in Evergreen Rev. July–Aug. 15 I could spot the scores easily—the men who paid other men sexmoney.
1969 Jeremy 1 iii. 23/1 The boy will then deliberately reveal and manipulate his erect penis, thereby exciting the score.
1972 G. Baxt Burning Sappho ix. 153 I..got my hot tail out of there. I heard the score yelling.
1976 ‘Trevanian’ Main iv. 66 She won't be able to make a score until dark, if then.
III. A group of twenty. [Presumably from the practice, in counting sheep or large herds of cattle, of counting orally from 1 to 20, and making a ‘score’ (sense 9) or notch on a stick, before proceeding to count the next twenty.]
16.
a. A group or set of twenty. Primarily a noun, const. of (in Old English genitive plural), but owing to ellipsis and loss of inflections often serving (when preceded by a, or in uninflected plural by a numeral) as a numeral adjective. (Cf. dozen n., hundred n. and adj., thousand n. and adj., etc.)The combinations threescore adj. and fourscore adj. are common as mere archaistic synonyms for sixty and eighty; the similar combinations with other numerals are rarely used except when there is intentional division into groups of 20.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > twenty > group or set of twenty
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a1100 Bury St. Edm. Rec. in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses 56 Ðæt is..v scora [glossed quinquies uiginti] scæp..& viii score [octies uiginti] æcere gesawen.]
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 101/13 Folke..bi manie scor to-gadere.
c1330 Arth. & Merl. 3099 (Kölbing) Wiþ him he brouȝt þritti score Wiȝt kniȝtes him bifore.
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 3492 Bot yhit þar er ful many ma Of veniel syns, be many a score.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. iii. 118 Heo makeþ men misdo moni score tymes.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3209 Sex scor and seuen yeir liued sarra.
a1400 Morte Arth. 2344 The taxe and the trebutte of tene schore wynteres.
c1480 (a1400) St. Martha 52 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 286 Sewyne schore of fute & na ma.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bii* Seuyne score of scheildis thai schew at ane sicht.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 2638 My fader was a philisofer, & of fele yeres, To the nowmber of nene skowre.
?1583 M. Middleton Injunct. sig. Aii Excepte there bee at the leaste, three for euery score communicantes that bee in the Parishe.
?c1600 (c1515) Sc. Field (Lyme) 189 in I. F. Baird Poems Stanley Family (D.Phil. thesis, Univ. of Birm.) (1990) 237 There were killed of the Scotts moe than xii scower.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. ii. 109 Shee may perhaps call him halfe a score Knaues, or so. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. ii. 69 How many score [printed store; 1632 score] of Miles may we well rid Twixt houre, and houre? View more context for this quotation
1645 in S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands (1822) 600 At your returne they continuit with you, and conversit ut supra, als far back agane as scoir and threttein.
a1649 J. Winthrop Hist. New Eng. (1825) (modernized text) I. 286 They chose divers scores men, who [etc.].
1696 London Gaz. No. 3190/4 41 stout Cambridgeshire Wethers, worth about 14 l. a Score.
1727 W. Somervile Occas. Poems 386 Neighbours around, and cousins went By Scores, to pay their Compliment.
1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (1827) I. 340 Six score thousand.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 69 I form'd a score different plans.
1775 C. Johnston Pilgrim 273 He taught him to..bend his body into half a score antic postures.
1800 Ld. Keith in Paget Papers (1896) I. 223 The inhabitants of Genoa Die by Scores of hunger.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough v. 72 Till he had box'd up Twelve Score Pounds at least.
1842 T. B. Macaulay Battle Lake Regillus in Lays Anc. Rome 118 And still stood all who saw them fall While men might count a score.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxiv. 310 There were a score of generals now round Becky's chair.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island ii. vii. 56 I wished a round score of men.
b. with ellipsis of years (referring to age). Now rare except in threescore adj. and fourscore adj.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > specific age
yearOE
scorea1400
seventeena1568
threescorea1616
jubileea1640
military age1656
legal age1658
tecnogoniaa1676
sixty1717
forty1732
fifty1738
seven-year-old1762
teen1789
septuagenarianism1824
sexagenarianism1824
day-old1831
seventeen-year-old1858
centenarianism1863
roaring forties1867
twenties1874
leaving age1875
school-leaving age1881
octogenarianism1883
reading age1906
three1909
teenage1912
eleven-plus1937
a1400 Seuyn Sages (W.) 1019 He thoughte wel, at a score, He sscholde passi him before.
1899 H. Sutcliffe Shameless Wayne viii. 101 He died at two-score.
17. A weight of twenty or twenty-one pounds, esp. used in weighing pigs or oxen.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > pound > twenty or twenty-one pounds
scorea1500
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xiii. 152 As a shepe of vii skore He weyd in my fyst.
1766 Museum Rusticum (ed. 2) 1 475 To kill several hogs in a season, which shall weigh from eight to ten score.
1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 29 Oct. 264 The thousands of scores of bacon and thousands of bushels of bread that had been eaten from the long oak-table.
1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 217 At fifteen months old, they weigh about 28 score.
1858 Ulster Jrnl. Archæol. 6 361 The meal came down to three thirteens the score.
1881 W. Westall Old Factory I. xix. 255 I'll send them a score of meal and half a score of flour and some milk.
18. A distance of twenty paces. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > pace or step > twenty paces
score1545
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 37v For I should se one streame wyth in a Score on me.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1142/1 The trees were pulled vp by the roots and cast twelue score off.
1588 Sir W. Wynter in State Papers Defeat Spanish Armada (1894) II. 10 My fortune was to make choice to charge their starboard wing without shooting of any ordnance until we came within six score of them.
1591 Honorable Entertainem. Queenes Maiestie at Eluetham Proeme sig. A2v Other such buildings,..fourteene score off from the house on a hill side.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. ii. 29 As easie, as a Canon will shoot point-blanke twelue score . View more context for this quotation
1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxvi. 122 At Markes full fortie score, they vs'd to Prick, and Roue.
1647 W. Eldred Gunners Glasse 71 Foure Demi-Culverings to the moule Rod or Pole, distant 53 score.
1672 H. More Brief Reply Pref. sig. a4v Wherein the Authours fancy..leaping over all boundaries of Church-Authority,..runs on at eleven-score, as if he were upon a warm scent, giving chase to some of his Platonical Idea's [sic].
19. Coal Mining. (See quot. 1849.)
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > measure of coal, etc.
ten1590
score1754
overworkings1849
set1858
1754 T. Gardner Hist. Acct. Dunwich 216 This Port [Southwold] is of singular note in merchandizing Corn and Coals, where twenty-one is deemed a Score.
1789 J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle II. 681 The wages of hewers 2s. 8d. for hewing every score or twenty corves of coals.
1812 J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. J. Hodgson (1857) I. 98 Persons who..wrought 624 scores of coal, equal to 1300 Newcastle chaldrons.
1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 46 Score, a standard number of tubs or corves of coals at each colliery, upon which the hewers' and putters' prices for working are paid. It varies, in different localities, from 20 to 26 tubs.
20. (See quot. 1854) ? Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > yard > piece measuring twenty yards
score1854
1854 Househ. Words IX. 88 Strips [of straw plait] are..sold in scores, or pieces twenty yards long.
21. Criminals' slang.
a. Twenty dollars; a twenty-dollar bill. U.S.
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society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > twenty dollars
score1929
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > foreign banknotes > [noun] > U.S. > twenty-dollar bill
score1929
1929 G. L. Hostetter & T. Q. Beesley It's a Racket! 237 Score, twenty dollar bill, or units thereof—hundred, two hundred.
1979 K. Bonfiglioli After You with Pistol vii. 39 You'll have to give me a score to buy an old throwaway shooter.
b. Twenty pounds sterling (esp. in banknotes).
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society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > twenty pounds
score1933
1933 ‘G. Ingram’ ‘Stir’ xiv. 231 ‘I got about £10 out of the first, then £2 and then another “score”.’ ‘That makes £32.’
1941 Coast to Coast 225 They only owe me a couple of quid since Christmas now. I was holdin' a score but I dropped most of it.
1958 F. Norman Bang to Rights iii. 152 When they turned me over I had about a score on me.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a.
score-keeping n.
ΚΠ
1905 Daily Chron. 20 Dec. 3/4 Many witty things he has to say, as, for instance, on score-keeping.
b. (In sense 15d.)
score dough n. (dough n. 5.)
ΚΠ
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §510/1 Connection or score dough, the price of a ‘bindle’ of narcotics.
score money n.
ΚΠ
1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie vi. 61 Nick had just arrived at my apartment with some score money when I was called to the hall phone by the buzzer.
C2.
score-bid n. Contract Bridge a bid by a player whose side has a part-score, sufficient to give his side game.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > actions or tactics > call > bidding > bid > other types of bid
ask1872
overcall1890
rescue bid1912
game-goer1913
reverse bid1915
denial1916
rebid1916
overbid?1917
rescue?1917
under-call1923
jump1927
invitation1928
score-bid1928
approach1929
pre-empt1929
one-over-one1931
response1931
cue-bid1932
psychic1932
asking bid1936
reverse1936
shut-out1936
under-bid1945
controlled psychic1959
relay bid1959
raise1964
psych1965
multi1972
splinter bid1977
1928 M. C. Work Contract Bridge (new ed.) iv. 76 If my side has a contract score of 60, I must put a construction on my partner's minor two bid different from the construction put upon such a bid at no score... ‘Score-bids’ are exceptions to the general rules.
scorebook n. a book for preserving the scores of games; a scoring-book.
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society > leisure > sport > recording score > [noun] > scorecard
scoring-paper1840
scoring-book1845
scoring-card1845
score-paper1847
scorebook1851
scoring-sheet1851
score-sheet1859
scorecard1877
tally card1909
scoreline1969
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > umpiring and scoring > [noun] > score > scorebook
match book1812
scorebook1851
1851 J. Pycroft Cricket Field iv. 69 ‘Seventy-two runs,’ said Fennex, and the score book attests his accuracy, ‘was Beldham's first and only innings.’
1862 Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket Scores & Biogr. Cricketers I. 191 In Britcher's printed score-book, Mr. J. Tufton is..put down as bowled merely.
1902 W. J. Ford Hist. Cambr. Univ. C.C. Pref. 9 The C.U.C.C. has but..two scorebooks.
1921 P. F. Warner My Cricketing Life vi. 111 Sixteen centuries stand to his credit in the Middlesex score-book.
1977 J. Laker One-day Cricket 113 Gone are the days of the old green bound Club scorebook.
score-box n. Cricket a room or hut in which the official scorers work and (usually) the telegraph is operated.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > umpiring and scoring > [noun] > score > scoring-box
scoring booth1848
scoring-box1862
score-box1890
1890 in W. A. Bettesworth Walkers of Southgate (1900) xvi. 335 Pressmen were expected to..keep running to the score-box to ask for any information they required.
1934 W. J. Lewis Lang. Cricket 226 Underneath (the score-box was) a room for the printers.
scorecard n. (a) a printed card with a blank form on which spectators may enter the score in a game of cricket or baseball; also in extended uses, esp. a card issued to a competitor before a contest, on which his score (or that of his opponent) is to be recorded, or one held by a referee or judge for the same purpose; (b) U.S. ‘in exhibitions of poultry, a rating card’ ( Funk's Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. 1895); (c) see quot. 1909; (d) U.S. slang., a menu.
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society > leisure > sport > recording score > [noun] > scorecard
scoring-paper1840
scoring-book1845
scoring-card1845
score-paper1847
scorebook1851
scoring-sheet1851
score-sheet1859
scorecard1877
tally card1909
scoreline1969
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > umpiring and scoring > [noun] > score > scorecard
card1849
scorecard1877
match card1901
1877 C. Box Eng. Game Cricket xxvi. 459 Score card, a printed card, with the names of the players and the results of each person's innings.
1903 Daily Chron. 4 July 5/7 For without stop-watches, score~cards, and constant figuring, one had no idea where the contestants were.
1905 McClure's Mag. June 125/2 The football score-card privilege is ‘sold to a New York expert’.
1909 Eastwood Rep. to L.G.B. on Amer. Methods Milk Supply 69. Most of the cities which I visited have adopted the score card system of inspection. When examining a place where milk is..sold, the inspector fills up a card containing a printed list of the details on which he is required to report. For each detail a maximum score of a certain number of points is assigned.
1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 538 Score cards, pasteboard cards issued to competitors at competitions, giving the number of the target of each competitor firing,..and containing a blank space for the record of the shots fired.
1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 160 He handed her the menu. ‘Here's the scorecard.’
1958 People 4 May 19/7 How much is a quarter of a point worth on a fight referee's score-card?
1976 Cumberland & Westmorland Herald 4 Dec. 13/6 The other [sc. dart-players'] score cards were not in at the time of writing.
1978 Cornish Guardian 27 Apr. 23/5 (advt.) When you call in at our showrooms and test drive the Austin Morris range, we'll provide a detailed scorecard. First test our cars then try to match them against the competition.
score draw n. a non-goalless draw (draw n. 19a) counting for three points on a football-pool coupon.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > score
equalizer1930
score draw1970
1970 Sporting Life 2 Nov. 12 Percentage is based on three points for a correct score draw and two for a correct no-score match against the total number of points possible.
1977 Daily Mirror 15 Mar. 27/1 Plan 6..guarantees a line of at least seven score draws if any eight of your selections result as score draws.
score-game n. Golf a game in which the player's object is to obtain the highest score possible (opposed to match game). Also in Tennis.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > types of game or match
round1744
match-playing1857
half-round1865
foursome1867
matchplay1877
stroke-game1896
threesome1901
score-play1902
stroke-competition1904
score-game1905
greensome1911
fivesome1928
skin game1942
three-ball1952
1905 Daily Chron. 19 Aug. 9/7 The amateurs like match play best because they do better in it than they do at the score game.
1928 Observer 17 June 28/2 Moon only lost one score game in the whole match.
scoreline n. (a line, or part of one, in a newspaper, etc., giving) the intermediate or final score in a sports contest between two persons or team.
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society > leisure > sport > recording score > [noun] > scorecard
scoring-paper1840
scoring-book1845
scoring-card1845
score-paper1847
scorebook1851
scoring-sheet1851
score-sheet1859
scorecard1877
tally card1909
scoreline1969
society > communication > journalism > journal > parts and layout of journals > [noun] > sports section > scoreline
scoreline1969
1969 B. James England v Scotland iii. 64 The score line was a far from accurate guide to the run of play.
1971 Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg) 27 Mar. 23/6 Had Arcadia grabbed their chances the scoreline could have been reversed.
1977 Sunday Times 9 Jan. 30/6 It was only when he..scored three times, that the scoreline became slightly more respectable.
score-paper n. = score-sheet n.
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society > leisure > sport > recording score > [noun] > scorecard
scoring-paper1840
scoring-book1845
scoring-card1845
score-paper1847
scorebook1851
scoring-sheet1851
score-sheet1859
scorecard1877
tally card1909
scoreline1969
1847 W. Denison Cricketer's Compan. 1846 p. xv [Such runs] ought in fairness not to be placed on the score-paper as simple ‘byes’.
1862 Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket Scores & Biogr. Cricketers I. 315 Scorers, or those who copied the score papers into the book, must have been very careless.
score-play n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > types of game or match
round1744
match-playing1857
half-round1865
foursome1867
matchplay1877
stroke-game1896
threesome1901
score-play1902
stroke-competition1904
score-game1905
greensome1911
fivesome1928
skin game1942
three-ball1952
1902 Westm. Gaz. 2 Jan. 2/1 In score play..the same argument does not apply.
score-reader n.
ΚΠ
1946 Penguin Music Mag. Dec. 75 Music does not exist until it is performed, whatever our armchair score-readers may say to the contrary.
1961 J. A. MacGillivray in A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages 247 Music is written for the player, not for the score-reader.
score-reading n. the action or process of reading a musical score.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [noun] > reading music
sight-reading1864
score-reading1909
sight-playing1909
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1183/2 Score-reading.
1931 G. Jacob Orchestral Technique i. 4 To facilitate score-reading we give below the English, Italian, French, and German names for the instruments.
1977 Listener 23 June 822/2 Score-reading involves two quite different activities. First, you must learn to read music... The second element..is the ability to hear in imagination, in the mind's ear.
score-sheet n. (see quot. 1895); also transferred and figurative, esp. in phrases, as to add one's name to the score-sheet, to score a goal (in Association Football and the like).
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society > leisure > sport > recording score > [noun] > scorecard
scoring-paper1840
scoring-book1845
scoring-card1845
score-paper1847
scorebook1851
scoring-sheet1851
score-sheet1859
scorecard1877
tally card1909
scoreline1969
1859 in W. A. Bettesworth Walkers of Southgate (1900) v. 54 (plate) ‘Bell's Life in London’ Score Sheets, &c. &c., may be had at the Tent.
1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Score-sheet, a sheet ruled or designed for scoring; specifically, in baseball and cricket, a sheet ruled for recording all the features of the game.
1944 W. W. Elton et al. Guide Naval Aviation iv. 73 Dive bombers caused much of the Jap grief at Midway, where the score sheet revealed four Jap carriers sunk and other craft damaged and sunk.
1976 Cumberland & Westmorland Herald 4 Dec. 12/6 Ullswater managed to keep the score sheet blank up to half-time.
1976 Norwich Mercury 10 Dec. 8/3 They..made sure of the points when Stew Reynolds added his name to the scoresheet.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

scorev.

Brit. /skɔː/, U.S. /skɔr/
Forms: Also Middle English–1600s skore, 1500s scoore, 1500s–1600s scoure, 1600s scoar.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse skora.
Etymology: < Old Norse skora to make an incision, to count by tallies, < skor : see score n. The English development of senses has been largely influenced by the noun, and in some senses the verb may be regarded as an English formation on this.
I. To cut, mark with incisions.
1.
a. transitive. To cut superficially; to make scores or cuts in; to mark with incisions, notches, or abrasions of the skin. Also, †to score away, to remove by cutting.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > rubbing or friction > rub [verb (transitive)] > scratch > make a mark by scratching
scorec1400
rata1560
scratcha1684
scarify1687
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > cut off
becarveOE
carvec1000
hewc1000
shredc1275
cuta1300
chapc1325
cleavec1330
off-shearc1330
withscore1340
to cut offc1380
colea1400
slivea1400
to score awayc1400
abscisea1500
discidea1513
sharea1529
off-trenchc1530
off-hewc1540
pare1549
detrench1553
slice?1560
detrunk1566
sneck1578
resect1579
shred1580
curtail1594
off-chop1594
lop?1602
disbranch1608
abscind1610
snip1611
circumcise1613
desecate1623
discerpa1628
amputate1638
absciss1639
prescind1640
notch1820
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 231 If þou desirist to cure glandulas & scrophulas..kutte þe skyn endelongis þe necke,..& þane score [L. discarnare] him & drawe him out al hool with þe clooþ.
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. vi. 119 Have a thing therfore Made like a swerde this folk [sc. the testicles] away to score.
a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Passioun in Poems (1998) I. 35 His feit with stanis was rent and scorde.
a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in Poet Wks. (1843) I. 127 Thow wolde haue scoryd hys habarion.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Oiiiv/2 To Score, crenare, incidere.
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Prophetesse iv. v, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ffff/1 Scoring a man ore the coxcomb is but a scratch with you.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. i. 124 She with her teeth scored his skull in notches in many places.
1794 J. Clark Gen. View Agric. Hereford 44 When the trees are unkindly ‘hide-bound’, they are ‘scored’ by cutting the bark with the point of a knife.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad v. 195 Here stood stern Putnam, scored with ancient scars.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller (1850) 380 He..found most of the tall trees..more or less scored by the axe.
1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) v. 84 The elephant,..deeply scores with its tusks the trunk of the tree.
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. x. 131 We see..the primitive plough of the forking tree-branch, scarcely scoring the soil.
1852 M. Arnold Tristram & Iseult iii. 172 A briar in that tangled wilderness Had scor'd her white right hand.
1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) xi. 186 Young infants are scored with a razor.
1891 Cent. Dict. Score, 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.
1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad lxii. 93 Out of a stem that scored the hand I wrung it in a weary land.
b. spec. in Cookery. To make long parallel cuts upon (meat, etc.).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > dress animals for food [verb (transitive)] > score
scorea1500
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 115 A calf-lyuer skorde With the veryose.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 87 To Roast a Cod's Head. Wash it very clean, and score it with a Knife.
a1756 E. Haywood New Present (1771) 95 The skin [of a loin of pork] must then be scored cross-wise.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 168 Some butchers in the north country score the fat of the closing of the hind quarter.
1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 138 Having previously scored the back of the animal [to be baked].
c. To mark by cuts of a whip. Also transferred and absol.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [verb (transitive)] > weal
wale14..
scorea1616
wheal1698
weal1723
the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [verb (transitive)] > scar > by cuts of a whip
scorea1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. viii. 9 Let vs score their backes. View more context for this quotation
1785 E. Burke Speech Nabob Arcot's Debts in Wks. (1815) IV. 286 The remaining miserable last cultivator, who grows to the soil, after having his back scored by the farmer, has it again flayed by the whip of the assignee.
c1806 R. Wilson Cape of Good Hope in Life Gen. Sir R. Wilson (1862) I. 362 It is not pretended..that the lash never scores at the caprice of ill temper.
d. Scottish. to score aboon the breath: to gash the forehead of (a suspected witch) with a knife or a rusty nail, in order to render her incapable of mischief. Obsolete.
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1787 W. Taylor Scots Poems 93 A witty Wife did than advise Rob to gang to Maukin Wise, An' score her over, ance or twice, Aboon the breath.
1807 J. Hogg Mountain Bard Note xi He seized her forcibly, and cut the shape of the cross on her forehead. This they call scoring aboon the breath.
e. Geology. To mark with scratches or furrows; said esp. with reference to glacial action.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > glaciation > [verb (transitive)] > specific processes
score1862
quarry1874
pluck1893
sap1910
1862 J. Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861 iii. 19 All around the rocks are carved, and fluted, and polished, and scored.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 161 These stones, pressed by the weight of ice above, scratch and score the rocky bed in the direction of the ice-flow.
1879 J. Le Conte Elements Geol. (new ed.) i. ii. 66 If the water be not sufficiently deep, they ground, and being swayed by waves and tides they [sc. icebergs] chafe and score the bottom in a somewhat irregular manner.
2. To fracture, wreck (a ship). Obsolete.
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society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > cause to suffer shipwreck [verb (transitive)] > wreck a vessel
break1382
score1504
wrack1562
wreck1576
throw1577
to cast away1600
shipwreck1624
pile1891
1504 in J. D. Marwick Charters Edinb. (1871) 188 The schip callit the Litill Martin latlie skorit or brokin in tha partis.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. iv. 91 Hir foirschip hang, and sum deill scorit throwout [L. inlisaque prora pependit].
1513 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 482 Item, for the mendyng of the said boit, scho beand skorit with greit artailyery passand to the schippis.
1546 in State Papers Henry VIII (1852) XI. 145 Mr Seymour who landed here yesternyght.., scapyng a scoryng, beyng chased furst by that knave cowerd Burley, and put in gret dawnger with the shot of a sacre.
3. To produce (marks, figures, etc.) by cutting. Also (with allusion to sense 10), to record or express by cuts or notches.
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society > communication > record > pictorial, etc., records > [verb (transitive)]
nick?1523
notch1573
score1590
tallya1640
society > communication > indication > marking > mark [verb (transitive)] > by cutting
score1590
scribe1800
nick1827
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A3 And on his brest a bloodie Crosse he bore,..Vpon his shield the like was also scor'd.
1607 B. Jonson Volpone iii. ii. sig. F4v Draw your iust sword, And score your vengeance, on my front, and face. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. ii. 65 She will scoure your fault vpon my pate. View more context for this quotation
c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vi. 2561 My pen shall point thee out, And thy lewde actes vpon thy forehead score.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller (1850) 380 On the bark of the tree was scored the name of Deacon Peabody.
1869 J. A. Froude Short Stud. (1871) 2nd Ser. 325 If we except the Athenians and Jews, no people so few in number have scored so deep a mark in the world's history as you [Scots] have done.
1889 J. A. Froude Two Chiefs Dunboy xxvii. 415 They shall..score such marks on you as the quarter-master leaves on the slaves that you hire to fight your battles.
4. Nautical. To make a ‘score’ or groove in; to fix by means of a ‘score’.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > specific operations
berth1627
reconcile1633
ceil1691
frieze1769
skin1774
score1779
mould1797
ribband1805
fortify1820
horn1850
spall1850
convert1862
1779 W. Barnard in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 70 108 Pl. 3 E. Pillars in hold about which every half Beam was scored.
1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 298/1 These brass wheels..are fixed over the centre of each block that is to be scored.
1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding ii. 27 This bulb-iron is scored down between the floors sufficiently deep to lay hold of the Keelson-pieces with a double row of rivets.
5. North American. [? figurative use of 1c.] To rate, scold severely. Now esp. used in newspaper headlines.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > severely
dressc1405
wipe1523
to take up1530
whip1530
to shake upa1556
trounce1607
castigatea1616
lasha1616
objurgate1616
thunderstrike1638
snub1672
drape1683
cut1737
rowa1798
score1812
to dress down1823
to pitch into ——1823
wig1829
to row (a person) up1838
to catch or get Jesse1839
slate1840
drop1853
to drop (down) to or on (to)1859
to give (a person) rats1862
to jump upon1868
to give (a person) fits1871
to give it to someone (pretty) stiff1880
lambaste1886
ruck1899
bollock1901
bawl1903
scrub1911
burn1914
to hang, draw, and quarter1930
to tear a strip off1940
to tear (someone) off a strip1940
brass1943
rocket1948
bitch1952
tee1955
fan-
1812 ‘H. Bull-Us’ Diverting Hist. John Bull & Brother Jonathan xiv. 102 She..fell upon Beau Napperty, and scored him at such a rate, that if poor Beau had heard her, he would have been mad enough I warrant you.
1891 T. R. Lounsbury Stud. Chaucer III. vii. 223 Even poor Lipscomb..was soundly scored for his grossness and vulgarity.
1896 Nation LXIII. 37/2 He does not hesitate to score the Germans for their obstinate adherence to their own language and manners.
1912 J. Sandilands Western Canad. Dict. & Phrase-bk. at Scored An Opposition newspaper came out with the heading ‘Government Legislation Scored’.
1930 Publishers' Weekly 8 Mar. 1331/2 (heading) Smoot's secret session scored.
1967 N.Y. Times (Internat. ed.) 11 Feb. 3/3 (heading) Professor scores Reagan.
II. To mark or sketch with a line.
6.
a. To mark with a line or lines.
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society > communication > indication > marking > mark [verb (transitive)] > with lines
score1495
line1530
strike1539
lineate1558
interline1572
rule1599
quote1601
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvi. vii. sig. Kiiij/2 Thouh syluer be white: yet it makyth blacke lynes & strakes in the body that it is scoryd [a1398 BL Add. smytted] therwyth or rulyd therwyth.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 706/2 Whan your tymber is well scoored, you can never fayle to sawe it right.
1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus iii. iii. 1326 Then with his nayle score the margent as though there were some notable conceit.
1632 S. Marmion Hollands Leaguer i. v No name or title but on posts and trenchers, And doors scored with a coal instead of chalk.
1672 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 18 I desire his Majtie would bee pleasd to review ye sevrall clauses wch for his greater ease I have scored with a pen in the severall copys here transmitted.
1784 J. King Cook's Voy. Pacific III. v. vii. 151 They have likewise a method of scoring them [sc. gourds] with a heated instrument.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §185 Covered with cement, scored (lined) in imitation of stone, and white~washed.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair l. 446 Passages had been scored in his favourite books.
1869 F. Parkman Discov. Great West xiii. 154 The plains were scored with their pathways.
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton ii. 20 Fields and meadows, scored with hedges.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 384 A votive tablet covered with Punic characters and scored with rude figures of a triangle and an uplifted hand.
1881 J. A. Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. ii. i. 163 We had found..a copy of the once famous Tract 90..scored over with pencil marks.
b. absol. To make marks.
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society > communication > indication > marking > mark [verb (intransitive)]
rase1686
score1698
1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 272 Upon Torrefaction it was all become a Yellow Ochre, and would score like it.
c. To mark out (a path, a boundary, etc.).
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1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. C3v Giue me money, ile be thy snaile & score out a siluer path to his confusion.
1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 73 Acquieting the soules, that newe before Their way to heav'n through their owne blood did skore.
a1633 G. Herbert Priest to Temple (1652) xiii. 59 They [sc. two rules] excellently score out the way, and fully, and exactly contain..what course is to be taken.
1638 G. Sandys Paraphr. Iob 55 in Paraphr. Divine Poems Hast thou..Scor'd out the bounded Suns obliquer wayes?
1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea Advt. The limits thereof, beeing a fluent element, could not bee scored out, or certainly determined.
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 84 Never to take up the Stakes till the Track be scored out very plain upon the Ground.
d. to score out: to sketch in outline, adumbrate. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > draw [verb (transitive)] > roughly or rapidly
to shade out1591
to score out1615
to strike out1678
scribble1692
sketch1725
sketch1786
to rough in1826
cartoon1887
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 265 Almost in the same instant the first threds of the spermaticall partes are together and at once skored or shaddowed out with rude lines.
7. To draw a line through (writing, etc.) in order to cancel. Often with out.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > erase by marking
strikec1386
to rub offa1425
cancelc1440
streakc1440
cross1483
outstrike1487
line1530
to strike out1530
dash1549
to strike off1597
cancellate1664
damask1673
score1687
to run through1817
overscore1834
blue-pencil1883
stroke1885
caviar1890
to stencil out1891
to strike through1898
ex1935
x1942
society > communication > indication > marking > marking out > mark out [verb (transitive)]
to quarter out1600
to mark out1611
point1611
to set offa1647
to set out1653
score1687
1687 N. Johnston in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) (modernized text) 154 In the..Paper I found it scored out.
a1722 J. Lauder Decisions (1759) I. 10 Where the penalty in a bond was left blank, and the said blank scored, the Lords refused to modify any expences.
1832 H. Martineau Ireland iii. 42 Scoring the lease from corner to corner, with his newly-mended pen.
1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands 184 His full Mercy's gracious store With liberal dash thy guilt shall score And blot the sentence.
1879 Daily Tel. 29 May The passage in the will containing the bequest of the annuity to the noble Lord and his Lady was scored out.
8. transitive. To stripe, braid. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > stripe [verb (transitive)]
barc1400
spraing1532
rew1558
score1604
ribbon1656
stripe1842
tiger1930
1604 T. Middleton Blacke Bk. D 3 b A payre of Veluet slops, scored thicke with Lace.
9. Music.
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a. To write down in score.
b. To compose or arrange for orchestral performance.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > compose [verb (transitive)] > score or orchestrate
instrument1822
score1839
rescore1846
instrumentalize1855
orchestrate1861
symphonize1932
overscore1947
1839 T. Hood Storm at Hastings xvi Handel would make the gusty organs blow Grandly, and a rich storm in music score us!
1849 W. Irving Oliver Goldsmith (rev. ed.) xxxiv. 290 He pretended to score down an air as the poet played it.
1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 124 Who scores a septett true for strings and wind Mulcted must be.
1884 American 8 94 Mr. Gilchrist skilfully scored the cantata for full orchestra.
1885 Manch. Examiner 9 Jan. 5/6 The Adagio is scored with great beauty, the treatment of the wood instruments and horns being especially effective.
c. To write the score for (a film). Cf. score n. 6c.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > compose [verb (transitive)] > score film
score1934
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Score,..to add music to a picture that already has sound effects.
1967 H. Harrison Technicolor Time Machine (1968) xv. 156 ‘Is it true you scored a couple of films?’ ‘It is true I did the music for a ragged piece of class-X crap.’
1969 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 15 May 1- c/7 Poet-singer-composer Rod McKuen has scored three movies.
III. To record by scores.
10.
a. To record (debts) by means of notches on a tally; hence to write down as a debt. Also with up.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > enter in an account
set1154
brevea1377
scorec1386
post1622
to give credit1725
journalize1766
to enter up1835
statement1984
the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] > record > by notches
scorec1386
tallyc1440
nick?1523
notch1573
strike1626
c1386 G. Chaucer Shipman's Tale 416 And, if so be I faille, I am your wyf; score it vp-on my taille, And I shal paye, as soone as euer I may.
a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 407 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 312 Þer-fore on his ȝerde skore shalle he Alle messys in halle þat seruet be.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 706/2 I score, I marke upon a tayle or score, je marque. Score it, I pray you, for forgettyng.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 26 Skore a pint of bastard in the halfe moone.
1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Epigram viii. sig. A7v He..scores his dyet on the Vitlers post.
1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 1st Pt. ii. 15 When I brought them a reckoning, they would have had me to have scor'd it up.
1664 G. Etherege Comical Revenge i. ii. 5 The Chandler refus'd to score a quart of Scurvy-grass.
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 184 Let's..keep drinking and scoring brisk Claret.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xii. 261 He answered: ‘That signifies nothing, score it behind the Door.’ View more context for this quotation
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxxxii. 419 Joe provided him with a slate, upon which the old man regularly scored up vast accounts.
1860 G. A. Sala Baddington Peerage iv Pleading some ridiculous three-and-ninepence scored against me on the slate.
figurative.1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxx. 760 And certes you also..may skore up this for none of the least.1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cxxii. sig. H2 Nor need I tallies thy deare loue to skore . View more context for this quotation1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 215 The subject must be contented rather to score it up against the future, then require present pay.1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxvi. 230 I won't deal with you now,..I'll score it against ye, and sometime I'll have my pay out o' yer old black hide.1883 Tyndall in Contemp. Rev. 44 39 His [Rumford's] inference from his experiments was scored in favour of those philosophers who held that heat is a form of motion.
b. to score (something) on a person or thing: to lay to the charge of, to impute to. Obsolete.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > attribution or assignment of cause > assign to a cause [verb (transitive)]
titleOE
aretc1340
witena1375
witnea1375
reta1382
depute1382
wite1382
seta1387
layc1425
expoundc1430
imputec1480
attribue1481
assign1489
reckon1526
attribute1530
count1535
allot?1556
draw1578
object1613
prefer1628
entitle1629
implya1641
to score (something) on1645
intitule1651
put1722
to put down1723
charge1737
own1740
place1802
to set down1822
affiliate1823
1645 J. Milton Colasterion 3 Bearing us in hand as if hee knew both Greek and Ebrew, and is not able to spell it; which had hee bin, it had bin either writt'n as it ought, or scor'd upon the Printer.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Surrey 96 This was the true Cause of his Execution, though in our Chronicles all is scored on his complying in a Plot.
11.
a. intransitive. To run up a score; to obtain drink, goods, etc. on credit. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > be solvent [verb (intransitive)] > take credit
creancec1386
to run into scores or in score1568
to run or go on or upon (the) score1568
score1594
to build a sconce1630
tick1648
to chalk ita1704
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. L4v Pitch and pay, they will pray all day: score and borrow, they will wysh him much sorrowe.
1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 1st Pt. i. 12 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 inventus.
1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 211 Then looss the floud gates Georg, wee'le pay or score.
1727 P. Longueville Hermit 83 Being as welcome to score, as with ready Money.
1779 Mirror No. 23. ⁋3 Which title [sc. of an honest fellow] he continued to enjoy..while he had credit to score for his reckoning.
b. transitive. To add (an item) to one's score; to incur (a debt). In quot. 1681 figurative.
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1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar i. i. 3 It seems the holy Stallion durst not score Another Sin before he left the world.
12.
a. transitive. To enter as a debtor. Also with up.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > responsibility > be responsible for [verb (transitive)] > become liable for
score1592
contract1719
to fall in for1788
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (transitive)] > enter in an account > other book-keeping procedures
control1422
avouch1539
allocate1551
respond1588
score1592
carry1652
post1707
to carry forward1721
off-reckon1721
O. Ni.a1726
to carry over1745
rule1845
to write down1876
to close off188.
qualify1884
accrue1915
net1947
gross1954
strip1980
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. G If any chaunce to go on the skore you skore him when he is a sleepe, and set vp a grote a daye more than he hath.
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. L4v He stood noted or scoard for it in their bookes manie a faire day after.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. ix. 244 By dying for the Crosse, [they did] crosse the score of their own sinnes and score up God for their debtour.
1801 W. Huntington God Guardian of Poor 64 Thus I scored up my blessed Master, who, in his own time, always discharged my debts with honour.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. x. 142 You may earn your board easily enough, by scoring up the customers, and keeping my ledger.
b. to score up: to placard as an offender.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > publishing or spreading by leaflets or notices > [verb (transitive)] > publish by placard, notice, or bill > placard as an offender
to score up1581
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 38 b I thinke good they [flatterers] were scored up among the intollerable.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) Induct. ii. 22 If she say I am not xiiii.d. on the score for sheere Ale, score me vp for the lyingst knaue in Christendome. View more context for this quotation
13.
a. To record the number of (anything) by notches or marks; to keep an account of; to count and set down the number of (e.g. sheep). Also with up.
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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] > record
scorea1400
to strike off1881
a1400 Quatrefoil of Love in Furnivall Miscell. 128 Oure werkes are wretyn and scorde, In a role of recorde.
c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) ii. ix. 130 Wherein the age to com may hardlie score him emonge the auncient princes.
1609 S. Rowlands Whole Crew Kind Gossips 7 When I was Maid, with Chalke behind our doore, Some fiue and forty Suitors I did score.
1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 40 I haue not taken vpon mee to score vp all the accidents and occasions to further old age.
1631 A. Wilson Swisser iii. ii Wee will score vp Summs Of our embraces.
1633 G. Herbert Good Friday in Temple iii Or shall each leaf, Which falls in Autumne, score a grief?
1656 A. Cowley Anacreontics vi. Poems 34 An hundred Loves at Athens score, At Corinth write an hundred more.
1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar i. i. 6 We were in hast; and cou'd not stay To score the men we kill'd: But there they lye.
1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel i. 17 Such were the tools; but a whole Hydra more Remains, of sprouting heads too long, to score.
b. Biology and Medicine. To examine (experimentally treated cells, bacterial colonies, or the like), making a record of the number showing some character.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > measure > [verb (transitive)] > count
score1964
1964 Virol. XXIII. 118/1 Subconfluent monolayers were infected with 0·5 ml of virus and transferred the following day at an inoculation density of 100 and 500 cells per plate. Transformed colonies were scored 14 days later.
1971 Nature 20 Aug. 559/1 After 2–3 weeks the plates were fixed, stained and the colonies scored.
14.
a. In a game or contest: To set down in the score: often with obj. compl. Chiefly in passive.
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society > leisure > sport > recording score > record score of [verb (transitive)]
score1742
mark1816
1742 E. Hoyle Short Treat. Game Whist i. 15 If your Game is scored 1, 2, or 3, you must play the Reverse.
1752 Game at Cricket in New Universal Mag. Nov. 582/2 The Umpires..in case of hindrance may order a notch to be scored.
1862 Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket Scores & Biogr. Cricketers I. 22 Leg-before-wicket was also introduced about this time [1775], but at first simply scored down as bowled.
1862 Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket Scores & Biogr. Cricketers I. 191 In this match [in 1795], ‘leg-before-wicket’ is found scored for the first time.
1892 Hurlingham Club Rules 241 If a bird that has been shot at perches or settles on the top of the fence,..it is to be scored a lost bird.
b. absol. or intransitive. To record the points in a game or contest, to act as scorer.
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society > leisure > sport > recording score > record score [verb (intransitive)]
score1846
1846 W. Denison Cricket: Sketches of Players 11 Mr. Whittaker..accompanied Mr. Mynn, and scored for him.
1862 Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket Scores & Biogr. Cricketers I. 244 No one was bowled out on the England side, therefore (owing to the imperfect way of scoring at this period [1798]) it is impossible to say who got the wickets.
1891 W. G. Grace in Outdoor Games 14 The great thing in keeping score, after keeping it correctly, is to score neatly.
15.
a. transitive. Of a player or competitor: To add (so many points) to one's score. Also said of an incident in the game: To count for (so many points) in a player's score. Phr. to score a miss: see to score a miss at miss n.1 7c.
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society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (transitive)] > score
get1634
make1680
score1742
notch1836
steal1836
to put up1860
rattle1860
to put on1865
tally1875
net1907
to rack up1921
slam1959
society > leisure > sport > judging or umpiring > umpire or referee [verb (transitive)] > to add specific number of points to player's score
score1742
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > play (a game) [verb (transitive)] > to add points to one's score
score1742
1742 E. Hoyle Short Treat. Game Whist 8 A and B are to score 10 Points.
1782 Burnby in Kentish Gaz. 20–3 Nov. Now the Batsman..Sends the Ball Over all Scores six Notches for the feat.
1833 J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor 81 When a batter..was scoring more runs than pleased our general, he would put Mann in to give him eight or twelve balls.
1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (rev. ed.) 100 Pilch scored sixty-one.
1857 ‘Capt. Crawley’ Billiards (ed. 2) iv. 32 My first stroke scored three.
1862 ‘Cavendish’ Princ. Whist (1879) 2 To score honours is not sufficient; they must be called at the end of the hand.
1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. xxii. 176 On the present occasion a great many sixpenny points [at whist] were scored.
1885 Manch. Examiner 13 July 5/5 Two batsmen of the Harrow eleven..scored respectively 100 and 135.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 264/2 (Curling) Souter, to score a love game; not to allow the opponents to score.
1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 262/2 (Ringoal) If the ring hit the goal-post and glance off it through the goal, it shall score a point to the server.
b. intransitive. To make points in a game or contest: said of a player or competitor; also, of a card or an incident in the game.
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society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (intransitive)] > make points
score1844
tally1867
society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (intransitive)] > make points > make points (of an incident, etc.)
score1844
1844 E. R. Mardon Billiards 115 But, should the striker not score, it is at the option of the opponent to break them or not.
1844 E. R. Mardon Billiards 116 If either of the balls lodge on a cushion, it is off the table; and should a canon or hazard be made, it does not score.
1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel III. ix. xi. 56 It might score well in the game.
1862 Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket Scores & Biogr. Cricketers I. 440 William Beldham was now fifty-five years of age, and still continued to score largely.
1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 417 Sometimes it is advisable to combine safety with an attempt to score.
1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 676/1 The player whose ball is in hand cannot score, unless he play his ball out of baulk before striking the object-ball.
1889 Field 12 Jan. 47/3 Spit drew out three lengths, scored thrice, and after a few exchanges with Gradation, picked puss up.
c. To count or be reckoned in a score.
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society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > win, lose, or score [verb (intransitive)] > make points > be reckoned in a score
score1885
1885 Field 19 Dec. 847/1 The hazard scores to the striker.
d. transitive. Baseball. To cause (a team-mate) to score.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (transitive)] > cause (team-mate) to score
drive1860
score1912
1912 C. Mathewson Pitching in Pinch v. 109 Schlei made a base hit..and scored both men.
1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 17 June 2– h/4 Mark Belanger singled to score May before DeCinces' fourth home run of the season.
e. Psychology. To obtain (results in a test designed to measure abilities, capacities, or personality traits); to record results in (a test). Also intransitive. Cf. score n. 14c.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > test of mental ability > test rating > obtain marks [verb]
score1922
1922 Jrnl. Experim. Psychol. 5 101 College students scoring 88 to 195 in the first trial.
1952 A. G. Wesman in N. E. Gronlund Readings in Measurement (1968) xx. 201 It is important to know the extent of agreement between the persons who score them [sc. tests].
1952 A. G. Wesman in N. E. Gronlund Readings in Measurement (1968) xx. 201 Such a correlation coefficient yields important information—it tells us how objectively the test can be scored.
1968 P. McKellar Exper. & Behaviour xi. 277 Engineers tend to score highly on the economic (applied science) value trait.
1977 P. J. Dunham Exper. Psychol. ix. 240 We will not deal with the details of how the TAQ is scored.
1977 P. J. Dunham Exper. Psychol. ix. 240 The calm collected type of person who would score around 1 on the TAQ measure.
16. transferred and figurative (chiefly colloquial).
a. transitive. To gain, win (a success, etc.). to score a point (or points) off (a person) = to score off at sense 16b (see sense 16b).
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > gain or win (a success, etc.)
to run away with1698
score1883
1883 J. Hawthorne Dust xv. 124 She felt that she had scored the first success in the encounter.
1884 Athenæum 24 May 658 Occasionally the latter editor scores a point.
1884 Manch. Examiner 12 May 5/3 Last year he scored two unequivocal successes.
1885 Manch. Examiner 13 Jan. 5/1 Prince Bismarck has at length scored a victory in his impracticable Reichstag.
1908 Athenæum 27 June 786/2 Though never exactly profound, Macaulay invariably scores his point.
1956 R. Braddon Nancy Wake xiii. 140 Fournier was ecstatic with pride and pleasure—and with delight at having scored a point off Gaspard!
1957 Pract. Wireless 33 558/1 The episode I heard, ‘Rumour is a Lying Jade’, proved very amusing, with both stars scoring points off each other with satisfactory frequency.
b. intransitive. To achieve a success; to make a hit. to score off (a person): to gain a triumph over, to make a point at the expense of.
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the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)]
anitherOE
fellOE
lowc1175
to lay lowc1225
to set adownc1275
snuba1340
meekc1350
depose1377
aneantizea1382
to bring lowa1387
declinea1400
meekenc1400
to pull downc1425
avalec1430
to-gradea1440
to put downc1440
humble1484
alow1494
deject?1521
depress1526
plucka1529
to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533
to bring down1535
to bring basec1540
adbass1548
diminish1560
afflict1561
to take down1562
to throw down1567
debase1569
embase1571
diminute1575
to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576
exinanite1577
to take (a person) a peg lower1589
to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589
disbasea1592
to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592
comb-cut1593
unpuff1598
atterr1605
dismount1608
annihilate1610
crest-fall1611
demit1611
pulla1616
avilea1617
to put a scorn on, upon1633
mortify1639
dimit1658
to put a person's pipe out1720
to let down1747
to set down1753
humiliate1757
to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789
start1821
squabash1822
to wipe a person's eye1823
to crop the feathers of1827
embarrass1839
to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864
to sit upon ——1864
squelch1864
to cut out of all feather1865
to sit on ——1868
to turn down1870
to score off1882
to do (a person) in the eye1891
puncture1908
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
to cut down to size1927
flatten1932
to slap (a person) down1938
punk1963
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > achieve success (of persons)
speed993
achievec1300
escheve?a1400
succeed1509
to turn up trumps1595
fadge1611
to nick ita1637
to hit the mark (also nail, needle, pin)1655
to get on1768
to reap, win one's laurels1819
to go a long way1859
win out1861
score1882
to make it1885
to make a ten-strike1887
to make the grade1912
to make good1914
to bring home the bacon1924
to go places1931
1882 ‘L. Malet’ Mrs. Lorimer i. xiii For once she felt she had scored off her adversary.
1884 Illustr. London News 29 Nov. 522/1 The hat was cut and smashed, the lord's head was uninjured; so that, happily, the lord may be said to have ‘scored’.
1887 A. Conan Doyle in Beeton's Christmas Ann. 87 I told you that, whatever happened, Lestrade and Gregson would be sure to score.
1890 G. Saintsbury in New Rev. Feb. 143 The Republic scores by its appeal to..the most widely diffused of human weaknesses.
1891 Spectator 1 Aug. 148/1 Boys home for the holidays delight in ‘scoring off’ their most beloved friends and relatives.
c. transitive and intransitive. To make a (frequently dishonest) gain; spec. Criminals' slang, to commit a theft or robbery; to steal, filch, or purloin (something), esp. from an open counter or display. Originally U.S.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (intransitive)]
stealc725
thievec920
bribec1405
pluck?a1425
prowl1546
strike1567
to make away with1691
fake1819
snam1824
snig1862
to help oneself1868
boost1912
score1914
snoop1924
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)]
pick?c1300
takec1300
fetch1377
bribec1405
usurpc1412
rapc1415
to rap and rendc1415
embezzle1495
lifta1529
pilfer1532
suffurate1542
convey?1545
mill1567
prig1567
strike1567
lag1573
shave1585
knave1601
twitch1607
cly1610
asport1621
pinch1632
snapa1639
nap1665
panyar1681
to carry off1684
to pick up1687
thievea1695
to gipsy away1696
bone1699
make1699
win1699
magg1762
snatch1766
to make off with1768
snavel1795
feck1809
shake1811
nail1819
geach1821
pull1821
to run off1821
smug1825
nick1826
abduct1831
swag1846
nobble1855
reef1859
snig1862
find1865
to pull off1865
cop1879
jump1879
slock1888
swipe1889
snag1895
rip1904
snitch1904
pole1906
glom1907
boost1912
hot-stuff1914
score1914
clifty1918
to knock off1919
snoop1924
heist1930
hoist1931
rabbit1943
to rip off1967
to have off1974
1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 74 Score,..to successfully negotiate; to ‘make a touch’... ‘We scored seven times in the same joint by ringing up,’ i.e., disguising.
1926 J. Black You can't Win xiv. 191 [The thief] throws a few dollars on the bar just to..let them guess where he ‘scored’ and how much he got.
1930 Amer. Mercury Dec. 457/1 We make a play on their plant, but don't score.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §490/8 Steal,..salvage, score, shark.
1972 Last Whole Earth Catal. (Portola Inst.) 49/3 She was already plotting in her mind to stash part of their supper in her bag so they'd have something to eat the next day. She'd already scored a can of beer and a handful of cashew nuts.
1976 D. Topolski Muzungu vi. 99 I spotted a sugar factory, drove in, and scored a couple of kilos.
1977 D. MacKenzie Raven & Kamikaze xii. 146 ‘Where did you get it [sc. a newspaper]?’.. ‘Nicked it... It was too early to score any milk.’
d. intransitive and transitive. To buy or otherwise obtain a narcotic drug; by extension, to take a narcotic drug. slang (originally U.S.). Cf. score n. 15d.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > take drugs [verb (intransitive)] > obtain drugs
score1935
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > take drugs [verb (transitive)] > obtain drugs
score1969
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 101/2 Scored, made a purchase of dope.
1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie 9 Junk wins by default. I tried it as a matter of curiosity. I drifted along taking shots when I could score.
1959 Alfred Hitchcock's Myst. Mag. Feb. 68/1 To get you out of my pad I'll let you score for a low, low forty.
1969 Guardian 3 Dec. 9/1 She had needed the money to score H up in the West End.
1972 J. Brown Chancer ii. 30 The weekend ravers and joy-poppers..who maybe score half a pill of H for kicks.
1972 Daily Tel. 25 Feb. 17/3 Mick the Pimp asked me if I wanted to ‘score’ and gave me a tablet from a matchbox and I gave him £1.
1977 It June 18/1 (caption) I can score better shit in Hendon on an off night!
e. intransitive. Of a racehorse: to win a race.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [verb (intransitive)] > win race
score1941
1941 Sun (Baltimore) 13 June 21/1 Their choice scored by a head from Epindel.
1977 Evening Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 11 Jan. 13/4 Shifting Gold had gone on to score again in the Tote Northern Chase at Haydock Park.
f. intransitive and transitive. Of a man: to achieve intercourse (with a woman); to have (casual) intercourse with (a woman); also occasionally of a prostitute: to obtain (a client). slang (chiefly U.S.).
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse
playOE
to do (also work) one's kindc1225
bedc1315
couple1362
gendera1382
to go togetherc1390
to come togethera1398
meddlea1398
felterc1400
companya1425
swivec1440
japea1450
mellc1450
to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474
engender1483
fuck?a1513
conversec1540
jostlec1540
confederate1557
coeate1576
jumble1582
mate1589
do1594
conjoin1597
grind1598
consortc1600
pair1603
to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608
commix1610
cock1611
nibble1611
wap1611
bolstera1616
incorporate1622
truck1622
subagitate1623
occupya1626
minglec1630
copulate1632
fere1632
rut1637
joust1639
fanfreluche1653
carnalize1703
screw1725
pump1730
correspond1756
shag1770
hump1785
conjugate1790
diddle1879
to get some1889
fuckeec1890
jig-a-jig1896
perform1902
rabbit1919
jazz1920
sex1921
root1922
yentz1923
to make love1927
rock1931
mollock1932
to make (beautiful) music (together)1936
sleep1936
bang1937
lumber1938
to hop into bed (with)1951
to make out1951
ball1955
score1960
trick1965
to have it away1966
to roll in the hay1966
to get down1967
poontang1968
pork1968
shtup1969
shack1976
bonk1984
boink1985
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with
mingeOE
haveOE
knowc1175
ofliec1275
to lie with (or by)a1300
knowledgec1300
meetc1330
beliea1350
yknowc1350
touchc1384
deala1387
dightc1386
usea1387
takec1390
commona1400
to meet witha1400
servea1400
occupy?a1475
engender1483
jangle1488
to be busy with1525
to come in1530
visitc1540
niggle1567
mow1568
to mix one's thigh with1593
do1594
grind1598
pepper1600
yark1600
tumble1603
to taste of1607
compressc1611
jumble1611
mix?1614
consort?1615
tastea1616
bumfiddle1630
ingressa1631
sheet1637
carnal1643
night-work1654
bump1669
bumble1680
frig?c1680
fuck1707
stick1707
screw1719
soil1722
to do over1730
shag1770
hump1785
subagitatec1830
diddle1879
to give (someone) onec1882
charver1889
fuckeec1890
plugc1890
dick1892
to make a baby1911
to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912
jazz1920
rock1922
yentz1924
roll1926
to make love1927
shtupa1934
to give (or get) a tumble1934
shack1935
bang1937
to have it off1937
rump1937
tom1949
to hop into bed (with)1951
ball1955
to make it1957
plank1958
score1960
naughty1961
pull1965
pleasurea1967
to have away1968
to have off1968
dork1970
shaft1970
bonk1975
knob1984
boink1985
fand-
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [verb (transitive)] > obtain (a client)
score1960
1960 R. G. Reisner Jazz Titans 164 Score, to, to attain success, to get what you want. Example: I scored with that chick.
1961 J. Rechy in Evergreen Rev. July–Aug. 19 You wanna score?.. See that old cat over there... He wants us both to come over to his house.
1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 249 The boys used to go to the local dance halls and stand around..until the..sexual urge prompted them to score a chick.
1973 W. H. Canaway Harry doing Good i. 36 They might begin to ball later on... He would like to score with the Cheryl chick.
1976 ‘D. Craig’ Faith, Hope & Death ix. 42 They talk about ‘taking’ a woman... Or, ‘Did you score last night?’—like some great goal, scheming and forcing.
1976 ‘Trevanian’ Main (1977) ii. 39 He feels particularly sorry for the whores..who can only score drunks.
IV. In fox-hunting.
17. intransitive. To ‘go off at score’ (see score n. 3b).
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > move swiftly [verb (intransitive)] > go at full speed
to burn the earth or windc1275
streekc1380
career1647
streak1768
streak1834
score1858
to go eyes out1863
to go for the doctor1907
1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xxxviii. 160 They [the hounds] score away full cry on getting upon more propitious ground.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 583/1 (Fox-hunting) Scoring. Hounds ‘score’ when the whole pack speak to a strong scent.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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