mort
Horn announces quarry
Mort is a note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer in hunting.
The word comes from French for death and appears in older hunting literature.
Outside this specialized context, mort occasionally surfaces as an archaic or dialectal term for death itself, or in compounds like mortmain.
The huntsman blew the mort.
Cessation of existence
- deceaseEnd of life
- corpseDeceased human body
- funeralService honoring the dead
- burialPlacing deceased underground
cemetery · coffin · casket · grave · hearse · cremation · obituary · eulogy
Pit for extracting rock
hounds · horn · chase · huntsman · foxhunt · venison · carcass · bugle
Period following loss
- bereavementState following loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- lossBeing without something
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
woe · anguish · melancholy · despair · sadness · grieving · tears · desolation
Property and grounds
- bequestGift left by will
- legacyWhat's passed down
- heirOne who receives legacy
- beneficiaryDesignated asset receiver
probate · will · testament · executor · succession · patrimony · endowment · entailment
demise
Cessation of existence
burial · cemetery · coffin · casket · grave · hearse · cremation · obituary · eulogy · crypt
quarry
Pit for extracting rock
kill · hounds · horn · chase · huntsman · foxhunt · venison · carcass · bugle · halloo
mourning
Period following loss
- bereavementState following loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- lossBeing without something
lamentation · woe · anguish · melancholy · despair · sadness · grieving · tears · desolation · consolation
estate
Property and grounds
beneficiary · probate · will · testament · executor · succession · patrimony · endowment · entailment · intestate
- mortal remainsA deceased person's body
- mortal enemyLethal sworn adversary
- mere mortalRegular person, not godlike
- infant mortality ratesMeasure of newborn deaths
- mortal sinsGravest religious transgressions
- mortgage ratesCost of borrowing for property
mortal, immortal, mortgage, mortals, mortify, mortified, immortality, mortality, mortuary