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mort

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Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

mortn. [Cf. Icel. margt, neut. of margr many.].
     A great quantity or number.  [1913 Webster]
    "There was a mort of merrymaking."  [1913 Webster]
mortn. [Etym. uncert.].
     A woman; a female.  [1913 Webster]
    "Male gypsies all, not a mort among them."  [1913 Webster]
mortn. [Etymol. uncertain.].
     A salmon in its third year.  [1913 Webster]
mortn. [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.
mortn. [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.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

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

Etymology
ME f. OF f. L mors mortis death

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