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erennial herbs with a pod slightly resembling a bishop's miter; bishop's cap. False miterwort, a white-flowered perennial herb of the United States (Tiarella cardifolia).

A trailing plant (Lysimachia Nummularia), with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils.

The herb lunary or honesty. See Honesty.

A great quantity or number. [Prov. Eng.] There was a mort of merrymaking. Dickens.

Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.

The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying. When I saw her die, I then did think on your mortality. Carew.

To make mortal. [R.]

In a mortal manner; so as to cause death; as, mortally wounded.

Quality of being mortal; mortality.

A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45º, and even higher; - - so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described. Mortar bed (Mil.), a framework of wood and iron, suitably hollowed out to receive the breech and trunnions of a mo…

State of being pledged; as, lands given in mortgage. Chattel mortgage. See under Chattel. -- To foreclose a mortgage. See under Foreclose. -- Mortgage deed (Law), a deed given by way of mortgage.

The person to whom property is mortgaged, or to whom a mortgage is made or given.

One who gives a mortgage.

gives a mortgage.

Bringing or producing death; deadly; destructive; as, a mortiferous herb. Gov. of Tongue.

The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified; especially:

of Mortify.

The state of being mortified; humiliation; subjection of the passions. [R.]

One who, or that which, mortifies.

or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action. [Obs.] Chaucer. Quicksilver is mortified with turpentine. Bacon. He mortified pearls in vinegar. Hakewill.