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Definition of Mort
1. n. A great quantity or number.
2. n. A woman; a female.
3. n. A salmon in its third year.
4. n. Death; esp., the death of game in the chase.
5. n. A variety of dummy whist for three players; also, the exposed or dummy hand in this game.
Definition of Mort
1. a note sounded on a hunting horn to announce the killing of an animal [n -S]
Medical Definition of Mort
1.
A woman; a female. "Male gypsies all, not a mort among them." (B. Jonson)
Origin: Etym. Uncert.
1. Death; especially, 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. 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.
Origin: F, death, fr. L. Mors, mortis.
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