mort, n.f., death, decease; (hunt.) mort. Avoir la — sur les lèvres; to look like death. Avoir la — dans l’âme; to be sick at heart, to be in despair; to be intensely grieved. Être à l’article de la —; to be at the point of death, at death’s door. Mourir de sa belle —; to die a natural death. Mourir de — violente; to die a violent death. Mettre à —; to put to death, to slay, to kill. Il a la — entre les dents; he has one foot in the grave. À —; mortally, to the death. Les affres de la —; the terrors of death. À la vie, à la —; forever; in life and death. La peine de —; capital punishment.
mort, -e, part., dead, defunct; lifeless, insensible; dormant; stagnant; still, inanimate. Un enfant —-né (—-—s); a still-born child. Une fille —-née (—-—s); a still-born girl. Le feu est —; the fire is out. Argent —; money lying dead, idle. Couleur —e; faint color. —e-saison, (—s-—s) slack season. —e-eau; neap tide. Tête —e; (chem.) caput mortuum. Il n’y a pas de main —e; he strikes hard (i.e. like a blacksmith). —e la bête, — le venin; dead men do not bite. Mort-bois; V. bois. Morte-eau; eau morte; V. eau. Morte-paye; V. paye. Œuvres —es; (nav.) upper works.
mort, n.m., -e, n.f., dead person, deceased; dead body, corpse. Enterrer les —s; to bury the dead. Le jour des —s; All Souls’-day. Faire le —; to pretend to be dead. Faire un — or faire une partie du —; (at cards) to play dummy whist. Prendre le —; to take dummy.
mortadelle, n.f., (Italian) sausage.
*mortaillable, adj., (feudalism) in bondage.
mortaisage, n.m., mortising.
mortaise, n.f., mortise.
mortaiser, v.r., to mortise.
mortalité, n.f., mortality.
mortel, -le, adj., mortal, deadly; grievous, extreme, excessive; long, tedious.