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.

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 : WordNet®

scoring
     n : evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score;
         "what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he
         had to do" [syn: {marking}, {grading}]