Definition:Score/Historical Note

Historical Note on Score
Biblical language often uses the word score when discussing ages:


 * The days of our years are three score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
 * -- Psalm $90$: $10$

The term a score or scores is used in colloquial language to mean a moderately large number.