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Mort   /mɔrt/   Listen
noun
Mort  n.  A great quantity or number. (Prov. Eng.) "There was a mort of merrymaking."



Mort  n.  A woman; a female. (Cant, archaic) "Male gypsies all, not a mort among them."



Mort  n.  (Zool.) A salmon in its third year. (Prov. Eng.)



Mort  n.  
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."
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.
Mort stone, a large stone by the wayside on which the bearers rest a coffin. (Eng.)



Mort  n.  A variety of dummy whist for three players; also, the exposed or dummy hand in this game.






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"Mort" Quotes from Famous Books



... brought over with him, who immediately made a coffin for the bones, and my wife brought linen to wrap them in, and I wrapped the bones in the linen myself and put them in the coffin before all these people, and sent for the mort-cloth and buried them in the churchyard of Blair that evening. There were near an hundred persons at the burial, and it was a little after ...
— The Book of Dreams and Ghosts • Andrew Lang

... emperor, and, greatly moved, told him that 'all was finished.' His majesty, he writes, 'with tears in his eyes, approached me, pressed my hand, and embraced me,' and 'my sad and painful duty having been accomplished, I remounted my horse and road back to Sedan, '"la mort dans l'ame."' ...
— Germany from the Earliest Period Vol. 4 • Wolfgang Menzel, Trans. Mrs. George Horrocks

... of Roland" might be called the national epic of France. It corresponds to the "Mort d'Arthur" of England, the "Cid Chronicles" of Spain, the "Nibelungen Lied" of Germany, and the Longobardian legends of North Italy. Italian mediaeval literature is rich in the Roland romances, founded ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 • Various

... Boat Encampment are the Upper Dalles, or Dalles de Mort, and thirty miles farther the Lower Dalles, where the river makes a magnificent uproar and interrupts navigation. About thirty miles below the Lower Dalles the river expands into Upper Arrow Lake, a beautiful sheet of water ...
— Steep Trails • John Muir

... stunning blow, for a fact. John L. Sullivan couldn't have done it neater. I didn't think, Mort, that that young countryman could hit such ...
— The Boy Broker - Among the Kings of Wall Street • Frank A. Munsey


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