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Webster 1913 Edition


Mort

Mort

,
Noun.
[Cf. Icel.
margt
, neut. of
margr
many.]
A great quantity or number.
[Prov. Eng.]
There was a
mort
of merrymaking.
Dickens.

Mort

,
Noun.
[Etym. uncert.]
A woman; a female.
[Cant, archaic]
Male gypsies all, not a
mort
among them.
B. Jonson.

Mort

,
Noun.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
(Zool.)
A salmon in its third year.
[Prov. Eng.]

Mort

,
Noun.
[F., death, fr. L.
mors
,
mortis
.]
1.
Death; esp., the death of game in the chase.
2.
A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game.
The sportsman then sounded a treble
mort
.
Sir W. Scott.
3.
The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Mort

MORT

,
Noun.
A tune sounded at the death of game.
1.
A salmon in his third year.

Definition 2024


mòrt

mòrt

See also: mort, Mort, mórt, and mört

Occitan

Noun

mòrt f (plural mòrts)

  1. death
  2. dead person

Etymology 2

From Old Provençal mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

Alternative forms

Adjective

mòrt m (feminine singular mòrta, masculine plural mòrts, feminine plural mòrtas)

  1. dead

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