Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.