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[mawrt] 
mort
1 [mawrt] –noun
| 1. | Hunting. the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed. |
| 2. | Obsolete. death. |
Origin:
1300–50; ME < MF < L mort- (s. of mors) death
1300–50; ME < MF < L mort- (s. of mors) death
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[mawrt]
mort
2 [mawrt] –noun
| a three-year-old salmon. |
Origin:
1520–30; orig. uncert.
1520–30; orig. uncert.
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| mort 1
(môrt) Pronunciation Key
n. The note sounded on a hunting horn to announce the death of a deer. [Middle English, death, from Old French, from Latin mors, mort-; see mer- in Indo-European roots.] |
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| mort 2
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n. A great number or quantity. [Perhaps from mortal.] |
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Mort
Mort\, n. [Cf. Icel. margt, neut. of margr many.] A great quantity or number. [Prov. Eng.] There was a mort of merrymaking. --Dickens.
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Mort
Mort\, n. [Etym. uncert.] A woman; a female. [Cant] Male gypsies all, not a mort among them. --B. Jonson.
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Mort\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo["o]l.) A salmon in its third year. [Prov. Eng.]
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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. --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.
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Mort\, n. [F. mort dummy, lit., dead.] A variety of dummy whist for three players; also, the exposed or dummy hand in this game.
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