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An animal, as a sheep, dead of disease or privation; a mortling. [Eng.]

Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate.

See Mormal. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Dead pay; the crime of taking pay for the service of dead soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by soldiers. [Obs.] Bacon.

A dish of meats and other ingredients, cooked together; an ollapodrida. Chaucer. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments. Mortuary urn, an urn for holding the ashes of the dead.

The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.

To the death; mortally.

See Alamort.

As if dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected; depressed. Shak.

Same as Amortize, Amortization, etc.

Capable of being cleared off, as a debt.

to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain.

To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain.

Same as Amortization.

Before death; -- generally used adjectivelly; as, an ante- mortem statement; ante-mortem examination.

of things or properties instead of one or more things mentioned individually, as where a mortgage secures various debts as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien.

To redeem from mortgage. [Obs.] Howell.

Having the color of a faded leaf. Locke.

See Feuillemort.