mortar (mortar)

[Formerly more prop. mortcloth (môrt'klôth), n. morter, the spelling mortar being in mod. imi- A pall. [Scotch.] tation of the L.; mortier, F. mortier = Pr. mortier = Sp. mortero =Pg. morteiro = It. mortajo = D. mortel =MLG. [ mort1 + cloth .] And let the bed-clothes for a mort - cloth drop Into great laps and folds of sculptor's work. mort d'ancestor (môrt dan's es-tor). [OF.: mort, death; de, of; ancestor, ancestor.] In Eng. law, a writ of a ize by which a demandant sued to recover po e ion of an inheritance (coming from his father or mother, brother or sister, uncle or aunt, nephew or niece) of which a wrong-doer had deprived him on the death of the ancestor. It was repealed by 3 and 4 Will. IV., c. 27.