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mort 1  (môrt)
n.
The note sounded on a hunting horn to announce the death of a deer.
[Middle English, death, from Old French, from Latin mors, mort-; see mer- in Indo-European roots.]
mort 2  (môrt)
n.
A great number or quantity.
[Perhaps from mortal.]
Mort a great quantity.
Examples: mort of luck, 1821; of merrymaking, 1775; of money, 1887; of prisoners, 1694; of talk, 1850; of wit, 1708.


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"To the death," cried the little gray man, "a mort, mon fils.
The Outlaw of Torn by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
"Fuir la mort," she repeated, meditatively, in her mysterious voice.
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She felt the PETIT MORT at this unexpectedly gruesome information, and left the solitary man behind her.
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