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.

Mor"tal (?), a. [F. mortel, L. mortalis, from mors, mortis, death, fr.

moriri 8die; akin to E. murder. See Murder, and cf. Filemot, Mere a

lake, Mortgage.] 1. Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is

mortal.

2. Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life;

exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal

sin.