Mort

Definition of Mort

n.

1.

A great quantity or number.

There was a mort of merrymaking.

- Dickens.

1.

A woman; a female.

Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.

- B. Jonson.

1.

(Zool.) A salmon in its third year.

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.

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. - Carlyle.

1.

A variety of dummy whist for three players; also, the exposed or dummy hand in this game.

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