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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mort \Mort\, noun [Cf. Icel. margt, neut. of margr many.] A great quantity or number. [Prov. Eng.]
There was a mort of merrymaking. --Dickens.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mort \Mort\, noun [Etym. uncert.] A woman; a female. [Cant, archaic]
Male gypsies all, not a mort among them. --B. Jonson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mort \Mort\, noun [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo["o]l.) A salmon in its third year. [Prov. Eng.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mort \Mort\, noun [F., death, fr. L. mors, mortis.]
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mort \Mort\, noun [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.]
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