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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mortise  \Mor"tise\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Mortised};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Mortising}.] 
  1.  To  cut  or  make  a  mortisein 
 
  2.  To  join  or  fasten  by  a  tenon  and  mortise;  as  to  mortise  a 
  beam  into  a  post  or  a  joist  into  a  girder. 




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