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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              Let us score their backs.             --Shak.
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              A briar in that tangled wilderness
              Had scored her white right hand.      --M. Arnold.
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     2. Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for
        indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a
        tally.
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     3. To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or
        account of; to set down; to record; to charge.
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              Madam, I know when,
              Instead of five, you scored me ten.   --Swift.
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              Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score. --Shak.
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     4. To engrave, as upon a shield. [R.] --Spenser.
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     5. To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game.
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     6. (Mus.) To write down in proper order and arrangement; as,
        to score an overture for an orchestra. See {Score}, n., 9.
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     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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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "scored":
     battlemented, canaliculate, canaliculated, chamfered, channeled,
     chopped, corduroy, corduroyed, corrugate, corrugated, costate,
     crenate, crenated, crenellated, crenulate, crimped, cut, dadoed,
     dentate, dentated, embrasured, engraved, erose, fluted, furrowed,
     gashed, goffered, gouged, grooved, incised, indented, jagged,
     jaggy, lacerate, lacerated, nicked, notched, pleated, rabbeted,
     ribbed, rifled, rutted, rutty, saw-toothed, sawlike, scalloped,
     scratched, serrate, serrated, serrulated, slit, striated, sulcate,
     sulcated, toothed, troughed, wrinkled
  
  

















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