Wort vs Mort - What's the difference?
wort | mort |
A plant; herb; vegetable.
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* 1845 , Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Works :
Any of various plants or herbs.
Liquid extract from the ground malt and grain soaked in hot water, the mash, as one of the steps in making beer
Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
* Sir Walter Scott
(UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
A great quantity or number.
* Charles Dickens
(internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
(slang, archaic) A woman; a female.
* Ben Jonson
As nouns the difference between wort and mort
is that wort is word as an isolated unit while mort is roach; a small fish.wort
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- he drinks water, and lives on wort leaves, pulse, like a hogg, or scraps like a dog […].
- It is an excellent pleasure to be able to take pleasure in worts and water, in bread and onions, for then a man can never want pleasure when it is so ready for him, that nature hath spread it over all its provisions.
Derived terms
* (vern, adder's wort) * adderwort * (American lungwort) * (asterwort) * awlwort * banewort * barrenwort * (bearwort) * bellwort * birthwort * bishop's wort * bitterwort * bladderwort * blawort * bloodwort * blue navelwort * blue throatwort * blushwort * bogwort * boragewort * bridewort * brimstonewort * brotherwort * brownwort * bruisewort * bugwort * bullock's lungwort * bullwort * burstwort * butterwort * cancerwort * catwort * clown's ringwort * colewort * common ragwort * coralwort * cow's lungwort * crosswort * damewort * danewort * dragonwort * dropwort * (dungwort) * ebony spleenwort * elderwort * (European pillwort) * (fanwort) * felonwort * (feltwort) * felwort * feverwort * figwort * fleawort * (flukewort) * (French lungwort) * frostwort * fumewort * (galewort) * (garlicwort) * (gentianwort) * (German madwort) * (gipsywort) * glasswort * (golden lungwort) * (golden ragwort) * goutwort * (greater spearwort) * gutwort * gypsywort * hammerwort * hartwort * heathwort * hemlock dropwort * hillwort * hogwort * holewort * honewort * honeywort * hoodwort * hornwort * ironwort * kelpwort * kidneywort * knotwort * laserwort * lazarwort * leadwort * lesser spearwort * lichwort * lilywort * liverwort * lousewort * lungwort * lustwort * madderwort * madwort * maidenhair spleenwort * mallowwort * marsh pennywort * marshwort * masterwort * maudlinwort * maywort * meadowwort * milkwort * miterwort * mitrewort * modiwort * moneywort * moonwort * moorwort * motherwort * moudiewort * moudiwort * mountain spiderwort * (mowdiewort) * mudwort * mugwort * (mulewort) * (nailwort) * navelwort * (nettlewort) * nipplewort * (peachwort) * pearlwort * pennywort * pepperwort * (peterwort) * pilewort * pillwort * pipewort * quillwort * quinsywort * rattlewort * ribwort * rosewort * rupturewort * saltwort * sandwort * sawwort * scorpionwort * scurvywort * sea lungwort * sea milkwort * sea ragwort * sea sandwort * sea starwort * setterwort * sicklewort * sleepwort * slipperwort * sneezewort * soapwort * sparrowwort * spearwort * spiderwort * spleenwort * spoonwort * springwort * spurwort * * * * * stabwort * staggerwort * staithwort * standerwort * starwort * staverwort * stinkwort * stitchwort * stonewort * strapwort * sulphurwort * swallowwort * sweetwort * talewort * tetterwort * thoroughwort * throatwort * thrumwort * toothwort * (towerwort) * (tree lungwort) * (trophywort) * (wall pennywort) * wallwort * wartwort * water dropwort * water figwort * water pennywort * (water starwort) * waterwort * (white navelwort) * (white swallowwort) * (willowwort) * woundwort * (yellow starwort) * yellowwortSee also
* (projectlink)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .Noun
(-)See also
* (wikipedia)Anagrams
* ----mort
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The sportsman then sounded a treble mort .
Derived terms
* mort cloth * mort stoneEtymology 2
Compare Icelandic (margt), neuter of (margr), "many".Noun
- There was a mort of merrymaking.
Etymology 3
Shortening of (mortal).Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* immort English clippingsEtymology 4
Uncertain.Etymology 5
Noun
(en noun)- Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.
