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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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