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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.
1.
A salmon in his third year.