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Mort n. A great quantity or number. (Prov. Eng.) "There was a mort of merrymaking."

Mort n. A woman; a female. (Cant, archaic) "Male gypsies all, not a mort among them."

Mort n. (Zool.) A salmon in its third year. (Prov. Eng.)

Mort n.

Death; esp., the death of game in the chase.

A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game. "The sportsman then sounded a treble mort."

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.

Mort stone, a large stone by the wayside on which the bearers rest a coffin. (Eng.)

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

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... "Notre Dame," and Musset had published "Rolla" and the "Nuits"; Balzac the "Lys dans la Vallee"; Gautier the "Comedie de la Mort"; Georges Sand "Leone Leonie"; and a score of wild and eloquent novels more; and under the instruction of these romantic authors, his landlady, to whom he had intrusted the few francs he possessed, ...

— On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin

... stunning blow, for a fact. John L. Sullivan couldn't have done it neater. I didn't think, Mort, that that young countryman could hit such a clip, ...

— The Boy Broker - Among the Kings of Wall Street • Frank A. Munsey

... repose, And woke not on the morrow? Joys and griefs, Huntsmen and hounds, ye follow us as game, Poor panting outcasts of your forest-law! Each cheers the others,—one with wild halloos, And one with whines and howls.—A dreadful chase, That only closes when horns sound a mort! ...

— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini • George Henry Boker

... champions of "liberte, egalite, et la mort," entered the Hannibal, plunder was the order of the day; and, in their furious haste to get at the officers' trunks, they cruelly trod over the wounded in the cockpit and cable-tiers. Colonel Connolly relates that in ...

— Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I • Sir John Ross

... a mort of coaxing even to persuade her to a bite of dinner before setting forth. By half-past noon she was dressed and ready, and took the road toward Saltash Ferry. Nandy didn't see her start. He was lying stretched, just then, under the cliff by the foreshore, getting rid of ...

— Merry-Garden and Other Stories • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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