MORE, a. [L. magis; mare for mager; but this is conjecture.]

1. Greater in quality, degree or amount; in a general sense; as, more land; more water; more courage; more virtue; more power or wisdom; more love; more praise; more light. It is applicable to every thing, material or immaterial.
2. Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; as, more men; more virtues; more years, The children of Israel are more than we. Exod. i.
3. Greater. The more part knew not why they had come together. Acts xix.
4. Added to some former number; additional. But Montague demands one labor more. Addison.

1. To a greater degree. Israel loved Joseph more than all his children. Gen. xxvii.
2. It is used with the. They hated him yet the more. Gen. xxxvii.
3. It is used to modify an adjective and form the comparative degree, having the same force and effect as the termination er, in monosyllables; as, more wise; more illustrious; more contemptible; more durable. It may be used before all adjectives which admit of comparison, and must be used before polysyllables.
4. A second or another time; again. I expected to hear of him no more. The dove returned not to him again any more. Gen. viii. No more, not continuing; existing no longer; gone; deceased or destroyed. Cassius is no more. Troy is no more. No more is used in commands, in an elliptical form of address. No more! that is, say no more; let me hear no more. In this use, however, more, when the sentence is complete, is a noun or substitute for a noun. Much more, in a greater degree or with more readiness; more abundantly. More and more, with continual increase. Amon trespassed more and more. 2 Chron. xxxiii.

1. A greater quantity, amount or number. They gathered some more, some less. Ex. xvi. They were more who died by hail-stones; than they whom the children of Israel slew widh the sword. Josh. x. God do so to thee and more also. 1 Sam. iii.
2. There were more than forty who had made this conspiracy. Acts xxiii.
3. Greater thing; other thing; something further. Here we rest; we can do no more. He conquered his enemies; he did more, he conquered himself.

To make more. [Obs.] Gower.

1. A hill.
   
   
   [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
2. A root.
   
   
   [Obs.] Chaucer.
3. Greater; superior; increased
   
   
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4. 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.

5. In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree.
   
   
   (a)
6. To make more; to increase.
   
   
   [Obs.] Gower.
7. Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more worlds to conquer.
   
   

   With open arms received one poet more. Pope.

8. 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.

9. In addition; further; besides; again.
   
   

   Yet once more, O ye 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 it 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.