four score

See also: four-score and fourscore

English

Numeral

four score

  1. Alternative form of fourscore.
    • 1796, George Colman, the Younger, The Iron Chest: […], Dublin: […] Thomas Burnside, for P. Wogan, J. Rice, and G. Folingsey, act I, scene II, page 14:
      Blanch. How old art thou now, Adam? / Wint[erton]. Four ſcore, come Martlemas: and, by our Lady, I can run with a lapwing.
    • 1826, William Hone, The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information, column 841:
      His eldest son is at this present four score years of age, and his second son may now reckon three score; at our lady-day last he made up the years of his life just 102.
    • 1834, Thomas P[ascal] Jones, editor, Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania; Devoted to the Mechanic Arts, Manufactures, General Science, and the Recording of American and Other Patented Inventions, Philadelphia, Pa.: […] [T]he Franklin Institute, […], page 178:
      Although this patent is taken for a very important article, the door lock, the specification of the invention does not contain more than four score words.
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