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a. [ F. à la mort to the death. Cf. Amort. ] To the death; mortally. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Alamort. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. a- + F. mort death, dead; all amort is for alamort. ] As if dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected; depressed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v., n., a., n. Same as Amortize, Amortization, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. amortissable. ] Capable of being cleared off, as a debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. amortisatio, admortizatio. See Amortize, and cf. Admortization. ] 1. (Law) The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The extinction of a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund; also, the money thus paid. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. amortisen, LL. amortisare, admortizare, F. amortir to sell in mortmain, to extinguish; L. ad + mors death. See Mortmain ]. 1. To make as if dead; to destroy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. amortissement. ] Same as Amortization. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. ] Before death; -- generally used adjectively; as, an ante-mortem statement; ante-mortem examination. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The ante-mortem statement, or dying declaration made in view of death, by one injured, as to the cause and manner of the injury, is often receivable in evidence against one charged with causing the death. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ or }. One that covers a group or class of things or properties instead of one or more things mentioned individually, as where a mortgage secures various debts as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dismortaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Dismortgaging ] To redeem from mortgage. [ Obs. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A federally chartered corporation that purchases and resells mortgages. [ acron. ]
Syn. -- FNMA, Fannie Mae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ F. feuille morte a dead leaf. ] Having the color of a faded leaf. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Feuillemort. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. immortalis; pref. im- not + mortalis mortal: cf. F. immortel. See Mortal, and cf. Immortelle. ] 1. Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible. 1 Tim. i. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

For my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal as itself? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Connected with, or pertaining to immortality. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have immortal longings in me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Destined to live in all ages of this world; abiding; exempt from oblivion; imperishable; as, immortal fame. [ 1913 Webster ]

One of the few, immortal names,
That were not born to die. Halleck. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Great; excessive; grievous. [ Obs. ] Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Immortal flowers, immortelles; everlastings.

Syn. -- Eternal; everlasting; never-ending; ceaseless; perpetual; continual; enduring; endless; imperishable; incorruptible; deathless; undying. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who will never cease to be; one exempt from death, decay, or annihilation. Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who holds the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. [ R. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Immortalities [ L. immortalitas: cf. F. immortalité. ] 1. The quality or state of being immortal; exemption from death and annihilation; unending existance; as, the immortality of the soul. [ 1913 Webster ]

This mortal must put on immortality. 1 Cor. xv. 53. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exemption from oblivion; perpetuity; as, the immortality of fame. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of immortalizing, or state of being immortalized. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Immortalized p. pr. & vb. n. Immortalizing ] [ Cf. F. immortaliser. ] 1. To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever. S. Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his guilty name. T. Dawes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become immortal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an immortal manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Immortelles [ F. See Immortal. ] (Bot.) A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See Everlasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Failure to mortify the passions. [ R. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Icel. margt, neut. of margr many. ] A great quantity or number. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There was a mort of merrymaking. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etym. uncert. ] A woman; a female. [ Cant, archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Male gypsies all, not a mort among them. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Zool.) A salmon in its third year. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., death, fr. L. mors, mortis. ] 1. Death; esp., the death of game in the chase. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sportsman then sounded a treble mort. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. mort dummy, lit., dead. ] A variety of dummy whist for three players; also, the exposed or dummy hand in this game. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ F. mortel, L. mortalis, from mors, mortis, death, fr. moriri 8die; akin to E. murder. See Murder, and cf. Filemot, Mere a lake, Mortgage. ] 1. Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fatally vulnerable; vital. [ 1913 Webster ]

Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Of or pertaining to the time of death. [ 1913 Webster ]

Safe in the hand of one disposing Power,
Or in the natal or the mortal hour. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly. [ 1913 Webster ]

The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power. [ 1913 Webster ]

The voice of God
To mortal ear is dreadful. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours. [ Colloq. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mortal foe,
Mortal enemy, an inveterate, desperate, or implacable enemy; a foe bent on one's destruction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A being subject to death; a human being; man. “Warn poor mortals left behind.” Tickell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. mortalitas: cf. F. mortalité. ] 1. The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying. [ 1913 Webster ]

When I saw her die,
I then did think on your mortality. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Human life; the life of a mortal being. [ 1913 Webster ]

From this instant
There 's nothing serious in mortality. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human race; humanity; human nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

Take these tears, mortality's relief. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Death; destruction. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bill of mortality. See under Bill. --
Law of mortality, a mathematical relation between the numbers living at different ages, so that from a given large number of persons alive at one age, it can be computed what number are likely to survive a given number of years. --
Table of mortality, a table exhibiting the average relative number of persons who survive, or who have died, at the end of each year of life, out of a given number supposed to have been born at the same time. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Mortalized p. pr. & vb. n. Mortalizing ] To make mortal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a mortal manner; so as to cause death; as, mortally wounded. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In the manner of a mortal or of mortal beings. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was mortally brought forth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In an extreme degree; to the point of dying or causing death; desperately; as, mortally jealous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adrian mortally envied poets, painters, and artificers, in works wherein he had a vein to excel. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being mortal; mortality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. morter, AS. mortēre, L. mortarium: cf. F. mortier mortar. Cf. sense 2 (below), also 2d Mortar, Martel, Morter. ] 1. A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ F. mortier, fr. L. mortarium mortar (for trituarating). ] (Mil.) A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45°, and even higher; -- so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mortar bed (Mil.), a framework of wood and iron, suitably hollowed out to receive the breech and trunnions of a mortar. --
Mortar boat or
Mortar vessel (Naut.), a boat strongly built and adapted to carrying a mortar or mortars for bombarding; a bomb ketch. --
Mortar piece, a mortar. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. mortier, F. mortier, L. mortarium mortar, a large basin or trough in which mortar is made, a mortar (in sense 1, above). See 1st Mortar. ] (Arch.) A building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster of Paris, with sand, water, and sometimes other materials; -- used in masonry for joining stones, bricks, etc., also for plastering, and in other ways. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mortar bed, a shallow box or receptacle in which mortar is mixed. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To plaster or make fast with mortar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. mortier. See Mortar a vessel. ] A chamber lamp or light. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A small square board with a handle beneath, for holding mortar; a hawk; used by masons to hold or carry mortar. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. An academic cap topped by broad, projecting, stiff and flat square top, with a tassel attached to the top and hanging down. It was once worn by students in some colleges, but is now worn usually only at graduation ceremonies. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. mort-gage; mort dead (L. mortuus) + gage pledge. See Mortal, and Gage. ] 1. (Law) A conveyance of property, upon condition, as security for the payment of a debt or the preformance of a duty, and to become void upon payment or performance according to the stipulated terms; also, the written instrument by which the conveyance is made. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It was called a mortgage (or dead pledge) because, whatever profit it might yield, it did not thereby redeem itself, but became lost or dead to the mortgager upon breach of the condition. But in equity a right of redemption is an inseparable incident of a mortgage until the mortgager is debarred by his own laches, or by judicial decree. Cowell. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. State of being pledged; as, lands given in mortgage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chattel mortgage. See under Chattel. --
To foreclose a mortgage. See under Foreclose. --
Mortgage deed (Law), a deed given by way of mortgage. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Mortgaged p. pr. & vb. n. Mortgaging ] 1. (Law) To grant or convey, as property, for the security of a debt, or other engagement, upon a condition that if the debt or engagement shall be discharged according to the contract, the conveyance shall be void, otherwise to become absolute, subject, however, to the right of redemption. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: To pledge, either literally or figuratively; to make subject to a claim or obligation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mortgaging their lives to covetise. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

I myself an mortgaged to thy will. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. burdened with legal or financial obligations; as, His house was mortgaged to the hilt. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Law) The person to whom property is mortgaged, or to whom a mortgage is made or given. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One who gives a mortgage. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Law) One who gives a mortgage. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The letter e is required analogically after the second g in order to soften it; but the spelling mortgagor is in fact the prevailing form. When the word is contradistinguished from mortgagee it is accented on the last syllable [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. mortifier; mors, mortis, death + ferre to bring: cf. F. mortifère. ] Bringing or producing death; deadly; destructive; as, a mortiferous herb. Gov. of Tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. mortificatio a killing. See Mortify. ] 1. The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified; especially: (a) (Med.) The death of one part of an animal body, while the rest continues to live; loss of vitality in some part of a living animal; gangrene. Dunglison. (b) (Alchem. & Old Chem.) Destruction of active qualities; neutralization. [ Obs. ] Bacon. (c) Subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, abstinence, or painful severities inflicted on the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mortification of our lusts has something in it that is troublesome, yet nothing that is unreasonable. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Deep humiliation or shame, from a loss of pride; painful embarassment, usually arising from exposure of a mistake; chagrin; vexation. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. That which mortifies; the cause of humiliation, chagrin, or vexation. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts discovered by a tedious visit. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Scots Law) A gift to some charitable or religious institution; -- nearly synonymous with mortmain. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Chagrin; vexation; shame. See Chagrin. [ 1913 Webster ]