mort

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

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 ]