Defn: A great quantity or number. [Prov. Eng.]
There was a mort of merrymaking. Dickens.
MORT
Mort, n. Etym: [Etym. uncert.]
Defn: A woman; a female. [Cant]
Male gypsies all, not a mort among them. B. Jonson.
MORT
Mort, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A salmon in its third year. [Prov. Eng.]
MORT
Mort, n. Etym: [F., death, fr. L. mors, mortis.]
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.] 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.
MORTAL Mor"tal, a. Etym: [F. mortel, L. mortalis, from mors, mortis, death, fr. moriri 8die; akin to E. murder. See Murder, and cf. Filemot, Mere a lake, Mortgage.]