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Definition of 'mort'English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .
Noun
( en-noun)
Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
* Sir Walter Scott
- The sportsman then sounded a treble mort .
(UK|Scotland|dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
Derived terms
* mort cloth
* mort stone
Etymology 2
Compare Icelandic (margt), neuter of (margr), "many".
Noun
A great quantity or number.
* Charles Dickens
- There was a mort of merrymaking.
Etymology 3
Shortening of (mortal).
Noun
( en-noun)
(internet|informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
Etymology 4
Uncertain.
Noun
( en-noun)
A three-year-old salmon.
Etymology 5
Noun
( en-noun)
(slang|archaic) A woman; a female.
* Ben Jonson
- Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.
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