What does mort mean?we found 5 entries for the meaning of mort
 

Mort \Mort\, n. [Cf. Icel. margt, neut. of margr many.]

A great quantity or number. [Prov. Eng.]

There was a mort of merrymaking. --Dickens.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Mort \Mort\, n. [Etym. uncert.]

A woman; a female. [Cant]

Male gypsies all, not a mort among them. --B. Jonson.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Mort \Mort\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.]

(Zo["o]l.) A salmon in its third year. [Prov. Eng.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Mort \Mort\, n. [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 Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Mort \Mort\, n. [F. mort dummy, lit., dead.]

A variety of dummy whist for three players; also, the exposed or dummy hand in this game.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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