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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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