'Mort' definitions:
Definition of 'Mort'
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- Mort \Mort\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zool.) A salmon in its third year. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mort'
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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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Mort'
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- Mort \Mort\, n. [Cf. Icel. margt, neut. of margr many.] A great quantity or number. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- There was a mort of merrymaking. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mort'
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- Mort \Mort\, n. [Etym. uncert.] A woman; a female. [Cant, archaic] [1913 Webster]
- Male gypsies all, not a mort among them. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mort'
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- Mort \Mort\, n. [F., death, fr. L. mors, mortis.]
- 1. Death; esp., the death of game in the chase. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game. [1913 Webster]
- The sportsman then sounded a treble mort. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] [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. [1913 Webster]