Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mort"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Mort \Mort\, n. [Cf. Icel. margt, neut. of margr many.]
A great quantity or number. [Prov. Eng.]

There was a mort of merrymaking. --Dickens.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Mort \Mort\, n. [Etym. uncert.]
A woman; a female. [Cant]

Male gypsies all, not a mort among them. --B. Jonson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Mort \Mort\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo["o]l.)
A salmon in its third year. [Prov. Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Mort \Mort\, n. [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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.


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