Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The note sounded on a hunting horn to announce the death of a deer.
- n. A great number or quantity.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Death.
- n. A flourish sounded at the death of game.
- Dead.
- n. The skin of a sheep or lamb which has died by accident or disease.
- n. A great quantity or number.
- n. A woman.
- n. A salmon in the third year.
Wiktionary
- n. A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
- n. UK, Scotland, dialect The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
- n. A great quantity or number.
- n. Internet, informal A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Prov. Eng. A great quantity or number.
- n. Cant, archaic A woman; a female.
- n. (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. 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. Prov. Eng. & Scot. The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
- n. A variety of dummy whist for three players; also, the exposed or dummy hand in this game.
Etymologies
- Shortening of mortal. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, death, from Old French, from Latin mors, mort-; see mer- in Indo-European roots.Perhaps from mortal. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It was a sombre night, and as the unsuspecting prince rode up the Rue Vieille du Temple behind his little escort, humming a tune and playing with his glove, a band of assassins fell upon him from the shadow of the postern La Barbette, crying "_à mort, à mort_" and he was hacked to death.”
“Maillart for answer smote at him, crying, "Traitor, _à mort, à mort_!”
“Anything with Mor, since mort is Latin for death: Mordred, Mordor,”
“One possessed of a renewable term mort - gages it to J. S, who gains a new term from the original landlord, to com - mence after the old one; this nev term shall be subject to the old eqoity of redemption. ihid.”
“I think I could agree with this, i think mat comes from the Persian word maut and NOT the latin mort which means death, i think the word mort is obtained from persian which means death.”
“(I just can't help but associate "mort" gage with the french word for death.)”
“Marguerite of Valois, sister of Francis I, could never utter the words "mort" or "petite verole," such a horrible aversion had she to death and small-pox.”
“In English, the nearest equivalent is 'mort', the note sounded on a hunting horn to announce the death of a deer. marxist theory ..”
“Somehow, Lieutenant, 'mort' seems deader than 'dead.”
“In the sub-delegation of Charolles the inhabitants seem a century behind the age; being subject to feudal tenures, such as mort-main, neither mind nor body have any play.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mort’.
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Roots
act, aer, ambul, ami, amo, anim, ann, enn, arch, rcha, rchae, archi and 139 more...
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Salmon
All salmon all the time!
Also see asativium's excellent Salmon I am list.salmon, Salmon, Salmon of Knowledge, the Salmon of Lly..., chinook salmon, kipper, spent fish, foul fish, kelts, kelt, shedder, baggit and 70 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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My Treasures
Well everyone's lists are favourites or pets or useful terms, no? These are mine.
mephitic, cagastric, wulm, scaevity, seplasiary, sevidical, sevous, soleated, soloecal, sputcheon, stagma, temerate and 173 more...
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Alaska
Names of places, animals, plants, people, etc. found in and around Alaska.
grizzly, coho, roe, koyukon, chinook, sockeye, king salmon, chum, dog salmon, kipper, kelt, baggit and 221 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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slo: nižje pogovorno v SSKJ
Words listed as "low colloquial" in Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika (Dictionary of Standard Slovene).
afna, afnati se, arcnija, bolovati, briht, britof, cagati, cagav, cagavec, cajg, cenkati se, �?orav and 338 more...
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...a list from a notebook...
I found several pages of words in an old notebook. By the looks of it, they were words I learnt some time ago (and subsequently wrote down) from books by Patrick O'Brian and China Mieville, two aut...
trabacaloes, jocosity, ordnance, transom, douceur, purser, nostrum, gaby, sea-lawyer, bowsprit, officious, hobnailed and 124 more...
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A-Hunting We Will Go
Hunting terms. See also http://www.wordnik.com/lists/hunting-cries
gorgeaunt, forloyne, dryfoot, foothot, fimashing, allay, mort, coursing, strake, battue, jink, jack and 27 more...
Tweets
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knitandpurl "'It's a mort o' snow,' he said, somehow making it official. 'A mighty mort o' snow.'"
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley, p 130 Nov 25, 2011