mort

1. Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
2. A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
   • 1814 July 6, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. In Three Volumes, volume (please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 270129598 ↗:

3. (UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
4. (card games) A variety of dummy whist for three players.
5. (card games) The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.

mort

1. A great quantity or number.
   • 1849 May – 1850 November​, Charles Dickens, chapter 63, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, OCLC 558196156 ↗:

     a mort of water

   • 1937 (written, first published in 1949), J. R. R. Tolkien, Farmer Giles of Ham

     As it was, he still had a mort of treasure at home in his cave.

mort (plural morts)

1. (internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.

• immort

mort (plural morts)

1. A three-year-old salmon.

mort (plural morts)

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves) A woman; a female.
   • 1621, Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed:

     Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.

   • 1611, Thomas Middleton, The Roaring Girl, Edward Lumley 1840, p. 538:

     I have, by the salomon, a doxy that carries a kinchin mort in her slate at her back, besides my dell and my dainty wild dell, with all whom I'll tumble this next darkmans in the strommel […]

• See Thesaurus:woman

1. A diminutive of the male given names Mortimer and Morton.