Sc. Obs. [app. f. L. trā-, trans beyond + mors, mortem death, mortuus dead. Cf. It. tramortire to fall into a swoon.] A putrefying carcass; a corpse.
1508. Dunbar, Flyting, 161. Thow Lazarus, thow laithly lene tramort. Ibid. (15[?]), Poems, xxvi. 83. Mony stynkand fowll tramort. Ibid., xi. 20. Ane vgsum, vglye tramort.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), III. 117. Bayth pynd and puir like ony peild tramort.
