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Mort (?), n. [Cf. Icel. margt,
neut. of margr many.] A great quantity or number.
[Prov. Eng.]

There was a mort of merrymaking.

Mort, n. [Etym. uncert.] A woman;
a female. [Cant]

Male gypsies all, not a mort among
them.

Mort, n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
(Zoöl.) A salmon in its third year. [Prov.
Eng.]

Mort, n. [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.

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.


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