mort

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mort - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mort \Mort\, n. [Cf. Icel. margt, neut. of margr many.]
     A great quantity or number. [Prov. Eng.]
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           There was a mort of merrymaking.         --Dickens.
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  Mort \Mort\, n. [Etym. uncert.]
     A woman; a female. [Cant, archaic]
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           Male gypsies all, not a mort among them. --B. Jonson.
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  Mort \Mort\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zool.)
     A salmon in its third year. [Prov. Eng.]
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  Mort \Mort\, n. [F., death, fr. L. mors, mortis.]
     1. Death; esp., the death of game in the chase.
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     2. A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death
        of game.
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              The sportsman then sounded a treble mort. --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     3. The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
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     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.
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  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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