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. S...