MORT

Etymology 1

Noun

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.

Etymology 2

Noun

mort

A great quantity or number.

Etymology 3

Noun

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.

Antonyms

• immort

Etymology 4

Noun

mort (plural morts)

A three-year-old salmon.

Etymology 5

Noun

mort (plural morts)

(obsolete, UK, thieves) A woman; a female.

Synonyms

• See woman

Anagrams

• mTOR

Etymology

Shortening.

Proper noun

Mort (plural Morts)

A surname.

A diminutive of the male given names Mortimer and Morton.

Anagrams

• 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



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