2 entries under this word

Mort

Mŏrt, n.

noun

n. [Fr. mort, death, from Lat. mors, mortis; Fr. à la mort, a cry that hunters use to call the dogs when the deer is taken.] A note or tune sounded at the death of game.

The sportsman then sounded a treble mort. W. Scott.

Mōrt, n.

noun

n. 1. A great quantity; a large amount. [Prov. Eng.] There was a mort of merry-making. Dickens.

A woman. [Cant.] “Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.” B. Jonson.
A salmon in his third year. [Prov. Eng.]