Found 1 items, similar to Mort.
English → English (gcide) Definition: Mort 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] 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] Mort \Mort\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo["o]l.) A salmon in its third year. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] 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] 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.]