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Scored

Score \Score\ (sk[=o]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scored (sk[=o]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Scoring.]

  1. To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash.

    Let us score their backs.
    --Shak.

    A briar in that tangled wilderness Had scored her white right hand.
    --M. Arnold.

  2. Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally.

  3. To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.

    Madam, I know when, Instead of five, you scored me ten.
    --Swift.

    Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score.
    --Shak.

  4. To engrave, as upon a shield. [R.]
    --Spenser.

  5. To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game.

  6. (Mus.) To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9.

  7. (Geol.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.

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scored

vb. (en-past of: score)

Usage examples of "scored".

That same day Xhia led them to the Gariep river, and he showed Koots the wheel ruts of many wagons scored deeply into the soft alluvial earth along its banks.

Despite the banners and the show offeree, every man in the army knew that they were crawling for home, and that against all odds and despite the dweomer on their side, Braemys had scored a victory.

His skin was parched, the wrinkles scored so deeply that they were like gaping ravines, but his eyes were a bright, clear blue as they looked Porta wonderingly up and down.

Harvey Pearce probably got the macaw the same way he scored the bird Pounder mentioned.

The quick aging of Kolnar had seamed and scored it, until the starved hunger of the soul within showed through the flesh.

His hands came off the levers, and there was the ring of a bell as the unintercepted dot hit the far side of the screen and scored a point.

The shining green marshes were neatly ruled with lines of unmelted frost that scored the unsunned westerly side of every bank, and the tiny grizzled trees and houses here and there might have been toys made of crockery, like the china cottages that stand on farmstead mantelpieces.

But Venter says he scored top marks out of 35,000 of his navy peers in an intelligence test, which enabled him to pursue an interest in medicine.

But I saved him the trouble and scored a few small points in the process.

Tonya Welton said with a smile that Alvar scored as being at least an attempt at courtesy.

Then to compound the insult, the Hoskin boys scored another run in the second when their batters pounded out an infield single followed immediately by a solid double to--where the hell else--right field.

Communications, navigation, weapons, the power suit: these things caught Brans attention, and so did her test marks, scored by Adopolous and the late Ragir Parnell.

A young Cameroonian named Pierre Njanka, with no major-league experience, made his way through the entire Austrian team, his eyes wide as he ducked and swerved, stumbling forward, out of control, hardly believing what he was accomplishing, and then scored.

And the sign of your top-flight carnie was the way I scored those toppings.

In contrast, the students with the teachers identified as cheaters scored far worse, by an average of more than a full grade level.