mort

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Noun

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CIDE DICTIONARY

mort, n. [Cf. Icel. margt, neut. of margr many.].

A great quantity or number. [1913 Webster]

"There was a mort of merrymaking." [1913 Webster]

mort, n. [Etym. uncert.].

A woman; a female. [1913 Webster]

"Male gypsies all, not a mort among them." [1913 Webster]

mort, n. [Etymol. uncertain.].

A salmon in its third year. [1913 Webster]

mort, n. [F., death, fr. L. mors, mortis.].

Death; esp., the death of game in the chase. [1913 Webster]
A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game. [1913 Webster]
"The sportsman then sounded a treble mort." [1913 Webster]
The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. [1913 Webster]

Mort cloth, the pall spread over a coffin; black cloth indicative or mourning; funeral hangings. Carlyle. -- Mort stone, a large stone by the wayside on which the bearers rest a coffin. [Eng.] H. Taylor.

mort, n. [F. mort dummy, lit., dead.].

A variety of dummy whist for three players; also, the exposed or dummy hand in this game. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

mort, n. Hunting a note sounded when the quarry is killed.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L mors mortis death