Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of fourscore.
Blanch. How old art thou now, Adam? / Wint[erton]. Four ſcore, come Martlemas: and, by our Lady, I can run with a lapwing.
1796, George Colman, the Younger, The Iron Chest: […], Dublin: […] Thomas Burnside, for P. Wogan, J. Rice, and G. Folingsey, act I, scene II, page 142 more examples
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.
1826, William Hone, The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information, column 841Although 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.
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
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