mort vs skeleton

mort

noun
  • A variety of dummy whist for three players. 

  • A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed. 

  • The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort. 

  • The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. 

  • A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer. 

  • Death; especially, the death of game in hunting. 

  • A three-year-old salmon. 

  • A great quantity or number. 

skeleton

noun
  • A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first. 

  • A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub. 

  • The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals. 

  • The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively. 

  • A very thin person. 

  • A frame that provides support to a building or other construction. 

  • The network of veins in a leaf. 

  • A very thin form of light-faced type. 

  • Reduced to a minimum or bare essentials. 

  • An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton. 

  • The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure. 

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