The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue dates from 1811 and this is probably the only full, uncensored and searchable version of this dictionary on the internet. All the original crudities have been restored and it offers an interesting perspective on Common English from the time of the Regency and Jane Austen.

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Entries releated to MORT

 

ALL-A-MORT		Struck dumb, confounded. What, sweet one, all-a-mort? SHAKESPEARE.
AUTEM MORT		A married woman; also a female beggar with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity.
BINGO MORT		A female dram drinker.
BITE		A cheat; also a woman's privities. The cull wapt the mort's bite; the fellow enjoyed the wench heartily.
BLEACHED MORT		A fair-complexioned wench.
CLICKET		Copulation of foxes; and thence used, in a canting sense, for that of men and women: as, The cull and the mort are at clicket in the dyke; the man and woman are copulating in the ditch.
COLCANNON		Potatoes and cabbage pounded together in a mortar, and then stewed with butter: an Irish dish.
CREW		A knot or gang; also a boat or ship's company. The canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three orders, which see under the different words: MEN. 1 Rufflers 2 Upright Men 3 Hookers or Anglers 4 Rogues 5 Wild Rogues 6 Priggers of Prancers 7 Palliardes 8 Fraters 9 Jarkmen, or Patricoes 10 Fresh Water Mariners, or Whip Jackets 11 Drummerers 12 Drunken Tinkers 13 Swadders, or Pedlars 14 Abrams. WOMEN. 1 Demanders for Glimmer or Fire 2 Bawdy Baskets 3 Morts 4 Autem Morts 5 Walking Morts 6 Doxies 7 Delles 8 Kinching Morts 9 Kinching Coes
DIMBER		Pretty. A dimber cove; a pretty fellow. Dimber mort; a pretty wench.
DIPT		Pawned or mortgaged.
ELBOW ROOM		Sufficient space to act in. Out at elbows; said of an estate that is mortgaged.
FILCH, or FILEL		A beggar's staff, with an iron hook at the end, to pluck clothes from an hedge, or any thing out of a casement. Filcher; the same as angler. Filching cove; a man thief. Filching mort; a woman thief.
FRENCHIFIED		Infected with the venereal disease. The mort is Frenchified: the wench is infected.
GENTRY MORT		A gentlewoman.
HOD		Brother Hod; a familiar name for a bricklayer's labourer: from the hod which is used for carrying bricks and mortar.
HOLY WATER		He loves him as the Devil loves holy water, i.e. hates him mortally. Holy water, according to the Roman Catholics, having the virtue to chase away the Devil and his imps.
KINCHIN		A little child. Kinchin coes; orphan beggar boys, educated in thieving. Kinchin morts; young girls under the like circumstances and training. Kinchin morts, or coes in slates; beggars' children carried at their mother's backs in sheets. Kinchin cove; a little man.
MORT		A woman or wench; also a yeoman's daughter. To be taken all-a mort; to be confounded, surprised, or motionless through fear.
MOT		A girl, or wench. See MORT.
MUFF		The private parts of a woman. To the well wearing of your muff, mort; to the happy consummation of your marriage, girl; a health.
NAZY		Drunken. Nazy cove or mort; a drunken rogue or harlot. Nazy nabs; drunken coxcombs.
QUEER MORT		A diseased strumpet.
REBUS		A riddle or pun on a man's name, expressed in sculpture or painting, thus: a bolt or arrow, and a tun, for Bolton; death's head, and a ton, for Morton.
ROME MORT		A queen.
RUM MORT		A queen, or great lady.
SNOOZE, or SNOODGE		To sleep. To snooze with a mort; to sleep with a wench.
STROLLERS		Itinerants of different kinds. Strolling morts; beggars or pedlars pretending to be widows.
TO WAP		To copulate, to beat. If she wont wap for a winne, let her trine for a make; if she won't lie with a man for a penny, let her hang for a halfpenny. Mort wap-apace; a woman of experience, or very expert at the sport.
TO WAP		To copulate, to beat. If she wont wap for a winne, let her trine for a make; if she won't lie with a man for a penny, let her hang for a halfpenny. Mort wap-apace; a woman of experience, or very expert at the sport.