Associations to the word «Mort»

Wiktionary

MORT, noun. Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
MORT, noun. A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
MORT, noun. (UK) (Scotland) (dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
MORT, noun. (card games) A variety of dummy whist for three players.
MORT, noun. (card games) The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.
MORT, noun. A great quantity or number.
MORT, noun. (internet) (informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
MORT, noun. A three-year-old salmon.
MORT, noun. (slang) (archaic) A woman; a female.
MORT, proper noun. A diminutive of the male given names Mortimer and Morton.
MORT CLOTH, noun. (UK) (obsolete) The pall spread over a coffin; black cloth indicative of mourning; funeral hangings.
MORT STONE, noun. (UK) (obsolete) A large stone by the wayside on which the bearers rest a coffin.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats