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What's The Definition Of Mort?

\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.] (Zo["o]l.) 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.
\Mort\, n. [F. mort dummy, lit., dead.] A variety of dummy whist for three players; also, the exposed or dummy hand in this game.