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 mort /ˈmɔrt/
 通知獵物已死的號角聲,很多,多數

 Mort n.  A great quantity or number. [Prov. Eng.]
    There was a mort of merrymaking.   --Dickens.

 Mort, n.  A woman; a female. [Cant, archaic]
    Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.   --B. Jonson.

 Mort, n.  Zool. A salmon in its third year. [Prov. Eng.]

 Mort, n.
 1. Death; esp., the death of game in the chase.
 2. A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game.
    The sportsman then sounded a treble mort.   --Sir W. Scott.
 3. The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
 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.

 Mort n.  A variety of dummy whist for three players; also, the exposed or dummy hand in this game.
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