more

n. [ AS. more, moru; akin to G. möhre carrot, OHG. moraha, morha. ] A root. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. mōr. See Moor a waste. ] A hill. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make more; to increase. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree. (a) With a verb or participle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Admiring more
The riches of Heaven's pavement. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Happy here, and more happy hereafter. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Double comparatives were common among writers of the Elizabeth period, and for some time later; as, more brighter; more dearer. [ 1913 Webster ] The duke of Milan
And his more braver daughter. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In addition; further; besides; again. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ] Those oracles which set the world in flames,
Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds or surpasses in any way what it is compared with. [ 1913 Webster ]

And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. Ex. xvi. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is in addition; something other and further; an additional or greater amount. [ 1913 Webster ]

They that would have more and more can never have enough. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

O! That pang where more than madness lies. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Mohair. ] A thick woolen fabric, watered or with embossed figures; -- used in upholstery, for curtains, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See morelle. ] (Bot.) 1. Nightshade; -- so called from its blackish purple berries. [ Written also morelle. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of cherry. See Morello. [ 1913 Webster ]

Great morel, the deadly nightshade. --
Petty morel, the black nightshade. See Nightshade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See moril. ] (Bot.) An edible fungus (Morchella esculenta), the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. It is used as food, and for flavoring sauces. [ Written also moril. ] [ 1913 Webster ]