Mort /(?)/

Mort

n.
  1. A great quantity or number. [Prov. Eng.]
    There was a mort of merrymaking.

Mort

n.
  1. A woman; a female. [Cant, archaic]
    Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.

Mort

n.
  1. A salmon in its third year. (Zool.) [Prov. Eng.]

Mort

n.
  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.
  3. The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Phrases & Compounds

Mort cloth
the pall spread over a coffin; black cloth indicative or mourning; funeral hangings.
Mort stone
a large stone by the wayside on which the bearers rest a coffin.

Mort

n.
  1. A variety of dummy whist for three players; also, the exposed or dummy hand in this game.