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noun
An animal that has died of disease or by mischance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Probably from mort + -kin (compare mortling); or from Old French mortekine, a variant of mortecine, from Medieval Latin morticinus. Compare also Swedish murken (“putrefied”), Icelandic morkinn (“putrid”).
