scoring

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain. [1913 Webster]

I scorn thy meat; 't would choke me.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

This my long sufferance, and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.— C. J. Smith.[1913 Webster]

2.To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride. [1913 Webster]

His fellow, that lay by his bed's side, Gan for to laugh, and scorned him full fast.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]

To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

Syn: To contemn; despise; disdain. See Contemn. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Let us score their backs.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

A briar in that tangled wilderness Had scored her white right hand.— M. Arnold.[1913 Webster]

2.Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally. [1913 Webster]

3.To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge. [1913 Webster]

Madam, I know when, Instead of five, you scored me ten.— Swift.[1913 Webster]

Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

4.To engrave, as upon a shield. [R.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

5.To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game. [1913 Webster]

6.(Mus.) To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]