6 entries under this word
n. [See infra.] 1. Greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds or surpasses in any way what it is compared with.
And the children of Israel gathered some more, some less. Ex. XVI. 17.
Sense 2. That which is in addition; something other and further.
They that would have more and more can never have enough. L'Estrange.
No more, not any thing more; nothing further.
a., comp. [positive wanting; superl. MOST.] [A-S. mōra, mēra, O. Fries. mar, O. Sax. mer, D. meer, Icel. meiri, Dan. meer, meere, Sw. mer, mera, O. H. Ger. mēr, mēro, M. H. Ger. mēr, mēre, N. H. Ger. mehr, Goth. mais, maiza, allied to Lat. magis.] 1. Greater in any way; superior; increased;—the noun used as it were adjectively, or for more of; as, (a.) Greater in amount, degree, quality, and the like;—with the singular. Wrong not that wrong with a more contempt. Shak. The more part knew not wherefore they were come together. Acts xix. 32. (b.) Greater in number; exceeding in numbers;—with the plural. The people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. Ex. i. 9. 2. Additional; other besides; as, he wept because there were no more worlds to conquer.
Sense 1. In a greater quantity, extent, or degree; rather;—used with an adjective to form the comparative degree; as, more wise; more durable.
Sense 2. In addition; further; besides; again.
And he staid yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. Gen. viii. 12.
More and more, with continual increase. “Amon trespassed more and more.” 2 Chron. xxxiii. 23.—No more, not continuing; existing no longer; departed; deceased or destroyed; 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.
—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.
[A-S. mōr. See MOOR.] A hill. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
[O. H. Ger. morahā, moreha, morlà, M. H. Ger. morhe, N. H. Ger. mö(h)re, a carrot.] A root. [Obs.] Spenser.}
v. t. To make more. [Obs.] Gower.