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  1. 1. n. A great quantity or number. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. A woman; a female. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. A salmon in its third year. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. Death; esp., the death of game in the chase. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game. Source: opted
  6. 6. n. The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. Source: opted
  7. 7. A great quantity or number. [Prov. Eng.] There was a mort of merrymaking. Dickens. A woman; a female. [Cant] Male gypsies all, not a mort among them. B. Jonson. A salmon in its third year. [Prov. Eng.] 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. Source: webster
  8. 8. A great quantity or number. [Prov. Eng.]There was a mort of merrymaking. Dickens. Source: adambom
  9. 9. n. A great quantity or number. n. A woman; a female. n. A salmon in its third year. n. Death; esp., the death of game in the chase. n. A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game. n. The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. Source: ecdict

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