mort

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.]

---

mort¹

n

(Individual Sports & Recreations / Hunting) a call blown on a hunting horn to signify the death of the animal hunted

[via Old French from Latin mors death]

---

mort²

n

a great deal; a great many

[possibly a shortened form of mortal used as an intensifier]

---

Mort a great quantity.

Examples: mort of luck, 1821; of merrymaking, 1775; of money, 1887; of prisoners, 1694; of talk, 1850; of wit, 1708.