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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mort \mort\, n. cf. icel. margt, neut. of margr many.
a great quantity or number. prov. eng.
1913 webster
there was a mort of merrymaking. --dickens.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mort \mort\, n. etym. uncert.
a woman; a female. cant, archaic
1913 webster
male gypsies all, not a mort among them. --b. jonson.
1913 webster
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mort \mort\, n. etymol. uncertain. zool.
a salmon in its third year. prov. eng.
1913 webster
- [4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mort \mort\, n. f., death, fr. l. mors, mortis.
1. death; esp., the death of game in the chase.
1913 webster
2. a note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death
of game.
1913 webster
the sportsman then sounded a treble mort. --sir w.
scott.
1913 webster
3. the skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
prov. eng. scot.
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.
1913 webster
see also:
mort cloth mort stone
- [5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mort \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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