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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.