An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
mort (countable and uncountable, plural morts)
Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
(card games) A variety of dummy whist for three players.
(card games) The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.
mort
A great quantity or number.
mort (plural morts)
(internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
• immort
mort (plural morts)
A three-year-old salmon.
mort (plural morts)
(obsolete, UK, thieves) A woman; a female.
• See woman
• mTOR
Shortening.
Mort (plural Morts)
A surname.
A diminutive of the male given names Mortimer and Morton.
• mTOR
Source: Wiktionary
Mort, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. margt, neut. of margr many.]
Definition: A great quantity or number. [Prov. Eng.] There was a mort of merrymaking. Dickens.
Mort, n. Etym: [Etym. uncert.]
Definition: A woman; a female. [Cant] Male gypsies all, not a mort among them. B. Jonson.
Mort, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: A salmon in its third year. [Prov. Eng.]
Mort, n. Etym: [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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 May 2025
(adjective) characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; “a critical reading”; “a critical dissertation”; “a critical analysis of Melville’s writings”
An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.