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.
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}.