mort

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

mort, n. [Cf. Icel. margt, neut. of margr many.].

 A great quantity or number.  [1913 Webster]
"There was a mort of merrymaking."  [1913 Webster]

mort, n. [Etym. uncert.].

 A woman; a female.  [1913 Webster]
"Male gypsies all, not a mort among them."  [1913 Webster]

mort, n. [Etymol. uncertain.].

 A salmon in its third year.  [1913 Webster]

mort, n. [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.

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.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

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

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L mors mortis death