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Mort
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A great quantity or number. [Prov. Eng.] There was a mort of merrymaking. Dickens.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A woman; a female. [Cant] Male gypsies all, not a mort among them. B. Jonson.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A salmon in its third year. [Prov. Eng.]
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Part of speech: noun (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. 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.