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   Mort (?), n. [Cf. Icel. margt, neut. of margr many.] A great quantity or number. [Prov. Eng.]
   
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   There was a mort of merrymaking. Dickens.
   
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   Mort, n. [Etym. uncert.] A woman; a female. [Cant, archaic]
   
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   Male gypsies all, not a mort among them. B. Jonson.
   
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   Mort, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zool.) A salmon in its third year. [Prov. Eng.]
   
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   Mort, n. [F., death, fr. L. mors, mortis.]
   1. Death; esp., the death of game in the chase.
   
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   2. A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game.
   
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   The sportsman then sounded a treble mort. Sir W. Scott.
   
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   3. The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
   
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   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.
   
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   Mort (?), n. [F. mort dummy, lit., dead.] A variety of dummy whist for three players; also, the exposed or dummy hand in this game.
   
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