MORTS

Noun

morts

plural of mort

Anagrams

• Storm, storm

Proper noun

Morts

plural of Mort

Source: Wiktionary


MORT

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.] (Zoƶl.)

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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