单词 | score |
释义 | scoren. I. A cut, notch, mark. 1. a. †A crack, crevice (obsolete); a cut, notch, or scratch; a line drawn with a sharp instrument. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. a. A notch cut in a stick or tally, used to mark numbers in keeping accounts; also the tally itself. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > list > [noun] tableOE scorec1325 billa1340 calendar?a1400 legendc1400 librarya1450 Ragmanc1450 Ragman rollc1450 cataloguea1464 repertory1542 scrowa1545 bedroll?1552 roll1565 file1566 state1582 inventory1589 brief1600 series1601 counter-roll1603 list1604 muster roll1605 cense1615 pinax1625 repertoirec1626 diagram1631 recensiona1638 repertorium1667 vocabulary1694 albe1697 enumeration1725 screed1748 album1753 tableau1792 roll-call1833 shopping list1923 laundry list1958 remainder list1977 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 expressc1475 to a hair's breadtha1616 flat1909 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > [noun] kithc900 avaymentc1315 learningc1386 information1390 knowledgea1398 witteringa1400 witting1417 advicec1425 hearinga1450 understanding1473 intelligence?a1475 intellectionc1475 wit1487 instructiona1535 myance1552 fact1566 aviso1589 facts and figures1727 tell1823 message1828 renseignement1841 khubber1878 dope1901 lowdown1905 info1907 poop1911 oil1915 score1938 gen1940 intel1961 scam1964 the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > [noun] > state of affairs or situation thingeOE stallc1000 estrec1300 farea1325 arrayc1386 casea1393 costa1400 state of thingsa1500 style?a1505 predicament1586 facta1617 posture1620 picture1661 situation1750 position1829 lie1850 posish1859 state of play1916 the form1934 score1938 sitch1954 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. 176 ‘What'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.] Thesaurus » Categories » a. literal in games: An act of ‘scoring’ or gaining a point or points. b. figurative. A successful ‘hit’ in debate or argument. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > one who or that which is successful > that which is successful > a successful stroke gird1513 feat1564 grand coup1752 coup1791 tour de force1802 hit1811 ten-strike1840 bull's-eye1857 score1901 strike1901 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] theft962 bribec1425 stoutheriec1440 booty1567 thievery1583 snapping1591 filcha1627 pilferagec1626 swag1794 stealing1839 stuff1865 score1914 hot stuff1924 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.). ΘΚΠ 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 drug dealer1800 drug peddler1889 swing man1903 drug pusher1904 drug trafficker1912 dope-merchant1921 junker1922 dope-pedlar1923 junkie1923 pedlar1929 pusher1929 dope-seller1930 dope-runner1933 connection1934 dope-smuggler1937 tea man1938 man1942 dealer1951 score1951 passer1956 candy man1965 narcotraficante1980 clocker1989 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. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > frequenting prostitutes > one who > prostitute's client punk-master1612 John1906 trick1925 score1961 punter1965 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. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > twenty > group or set of twenty scorec1290 twenty1637 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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.) ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. 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. ΘΚΠ 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.). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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’. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. Thesaurus » Categories » a. To write down in score. b. To compose or arrange for orchestral performance. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. a. intransitive. To run up a score; to obtain drink, goods, etc. on credit. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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.). ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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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