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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SCO'RED, pp. Notched; set down; marked; prepared for hewing.
In botany, a scored stem is marked with parallel lines or grooves.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Moby Thesaurus

battlemented, canaliculate, canaliculated, chamfered, channeled, chopped, corduroy, corduroyed, corrugate, corrugated, costate, crenate, crenated, crenellated, crenulate, crimped, cut, dadoed, dentate, dentated, embrasured, engraved, erose, fluted, furrowed, gashed, goffered, gouged, grooved, incised, indented, jagged, jaggy, lacerate, lacerated, nicked, notched, pleated, rabbeted, ribbed, rifled, rutted, rutty, saw-toothed, sawlike, scalloped, scratched, serrate, serrated, serrulated, slit, striated, sulcate, sulcated, toothed, troughed, wrinkled