In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
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.] (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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