Mort (?), n. [F. mort dummy,
lit., dead.] A variety of dummy whist for three players; also,
the exposed or dummy hand in this game.
Mort (?), n. [Cf. Icel. margt,
neut. of margr many.] A great quantity or number.
[Prov. Eng.]
There was a mort of merrymaking.
Dickens.Mort, n. [Etym. uncert.] A woman;
a female. [Cant]
Male gypsies all, not a mort among
them.
B. Jonson.Mort, n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
(Zoöl.) A salmon in its third year. [Prov.
Eng.]
Mort, n. [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.