quit scores

English

Verb

quit scores (third-person singular simple present quits scores, present participle quitting scores, simple past and past participle quitted scores or quit scores)

1. (idiomatic, archaic) To settle or balance accounts; to render an equivalent; to make compensation.
   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:

     Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “quit scores”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)