mort Meaning, Definition & Usage

Mort noun
Etymology
Cf. Icel. margt, neut. of margr many.
Definitions
  1. A great quantity or number. Prov. Eng.
    There was a mort of merrymaking. Dickens.
Mort noun
Etymology
Etym. uncert.
Definitions
  1. A woman; a female. Cant
    Male gypsies all, not a mort among them. B. Jonson.
Mort noun
Etymology
Etymol. uncertain.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) A salmon in its third year. Prov. Eng.
Mort noun
Etymology
F., death, fr. L. mors, mortis.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913