More \More\, n.

1. A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds or surpasses in any way what it is compared with.

And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. --Ex. xvi. 17.

2. That which is in addition; something other and further; an additional or greater amount.

They that would have more and more can never have enough. --L'Estrange.

O! That pang where more than madness lies. --Byron.

Any more.
   (a) Anything or something additional or further; as, I do not need any more.
   (b) Adverbially: Further; beyond a certain time; as, do not think any more about it.

No more, not anything more; nothing in addition.

The more and less, the high and low. [Obs.]

--Shak. ``All cried, both less and more.'' --Chaucer.

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More \More\, n. [AS. m[=o]r. See Moor a waste.]

A hill. [Prov. Eng.]

--Halliwell.

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More \More\, n. [AS. more, moru; akin to G. m["o]hre carrot, OHG. moraha, morha.]

A root. [Obs.]

--Chaucer.

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More \More\, a., compar. [Positive wanting; superl. Most.]

[OE. more, mare, and (orig. neut. and adv.) mo, ma, AS. m[=a]ra, and (as neut. and adv.) m[=a]; akin to D. meer, OS. m[=e]r, G. mehr, OHG. m[=e]ro, m[=e]r, Icel. meiri, meirr, Dan. meere, meer, Sw. mera, mer, Goth. maiza, a., mais, adv., and perh. to L. major greater, compar. of magnus great, and magis, adv., more. [root]103. Cf. Most, uch, Major.]

1. Greater; superior; increased; as:
   (a) Greater in quality, amount, degree, quality, and the like; with the singular.

He gat more money. --Chaucer.

If we procure not to ourselves more woe. --Milton.

Note: More, in this sense, was formerly used in connection with some other qualifying word, -- a, the, this, their, etc., -- which now requires the substitution of greater, further, or the like, for more.

Whilst sisters nine, which dwell on Parnasse height, Do make them music for their more delight. --Spenser.

The more part knew not wherefore they were come together. --Acts xix. 32.

Wrong not that wrong with a more contempt. --Shak.
   (b) Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; -- with the plural.

The people of the children of Israel are more and mighter than we. --Ex. i. 9.

2. Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more words to conquer.

With open arms received one poet more. --Pope.

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More \More\, v. t. To make more; to increase. [Obs.]

--Gower.

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More \More\, adv.

1. In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree.
   (a) With a verb or participle.

Admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement. --Milton.
   (b) With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly.

Happy here, and more happy hereafter. --Bacon.

Note: Double comparatives were common among writers of the Elizabeth period, and for some time later; as, more brighter; more dearer.

The duke of Milan And his more braver daughter. --Shak.

2. In addition; further; besides; again.

Yet once more, Oye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. --Milton.

More and more, with continual increase. ``Amon trespassed more and more.'' --2 Chron. xxxiii. 23.

The more, to a greater degree; by an added quantity; for a reason already specified.

The more -- the more, by how much more -- by so much more. ``The more he praised in himself, the more he seems to suspect that in very deed it was not in him.'' --Milton.

To be no more, to have ceased to be; as, Cassius is no more; Troy is no more.

Those oracles which set the world in flames, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more. --Byron.

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Much \Much\, a. [Compar. & superl. wanting, but supplied by More, and Most, from another root.]

[OE. moche, muche, miche, prob. the same as mochel, muchel, michel, mikel, fr. AS. micel, mycel; cf. Gr. ?, fem. ?, great, and Icel. mj["o]k, adv., much. [root]103. See Mickle.]

1. Great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has fallen; much time.

Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in. --Deut. xxviii. 38.

2. Many in number. [Archaic]

Edom came out against him with much people. --Num. xx. 20.

3. High in rank or position. [Obs.]

--Chaucer.

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