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Mort   /mɔrt/   Listen
noun
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.  
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."
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.
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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Mort" Quotes from Famous Books



... bonheur des macerations: car jadis, ayant su te plaire, O Bhagavat, il a recu de toi ce don incomparable. 'Oui, as-tu dit, exaucant le voeu du mauvais Genie; Dieu. Yaksha ou Demon ne pourra jamais causer ta mort!' Et nous, par qui ta parole est respectee, nous avons tout supporte de ce roi des rakshasas, qui ecrase de sa tyrannie les trois mondes, ou il promene l' injure impunement. Enorgueilli de ce don victorieux, il opprime indignement les Dieux, les rishis, les Yakshas, les Gandharvas, ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI

... hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.... Well! we are all condamnes, as Victor Hugo says; we are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve—les hommes sont tous condamnes a mort avec des sursis indefinis: we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among "the children of this world," in art and song. ...
— Vanishing Roads and Other Essays • Richard Le Gallienne

... Vive la mort, pour la femme et pour la gloire!" and with a shout half-exulting, half-maddened, the Gallic blood again fired to the desperate feat. Then there was a diversion—a rush to the opposite side of the building—a ladder might be of use there. A notion of forcing open a closed-up ...
— Girlhood and Womanhood - The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes • Sarah Tytler

... sooth, I had to spring, and no mystery about it, ere ever I got to the top of the rift leading into Doone-glade. For the stream was rushing down in strength, and raving at every corner; a mort of rain having fallen last night and no wind come to wipe it. However, I reached the head ere dark with more difficulty than danger, and sat in a place which comforted ...
— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore

... voici un jeune garcon," &c. Again, "On dressa dans le salon une grande table, et l'on me renvoya dans la cuisine, ou la Dame Leonarde m'instruisit de ce que j'avais a faire.... Et comme depuis sa mort c'etoit la Senora Leonarda qui avoit l'honneur de presenter le nectar a ces dieux infernaux," &c. This expression "Senora Leonarda," is much in favour of a Spanish original; why should not Le Sage have repeated the expression "Dame ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various


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