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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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Scorn \Scorn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scorned (sk[^o]rnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Scoring.]

[OE. scornen, scarnen, schornen, OF. escarnir, escharnir. See Scorn, n.]

1. To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.

I scorn thy meat; 't would choke me. --Shak.

This my long sufferance, and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste. --Milton.

We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful. --C. J. Smith.

2. To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.

His fellow, that lay by his bed's side, Gan for to laugh, and scorned him full fast. --Chaucer.

To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously. --Shak.

Syn: To contemn; despise; disdain. See Contemn.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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