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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Much \Much\ (m[u^]ch), a. [Compar. & superl. wanting, but supplied by More (m[=o]r), and Most (m[=o]st), from another root.] [OE. moche, muche, miche, prob. the same as mochel, muchel, michel, mikel, fr. AS. micel, mycel; cf. Gr. me`gas, fem. mega`lh, 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. [1913 Webster] Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in. --Deut. xxviii. 38. [1913 Webster] 2. Many in number. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] Edom came out against him with much people. --Num. xx. 20. [1913 Webster] 3. High in rank or position. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
More \More\ (m[=o]r), n. [AS. m[=o]r. See Moor a waste.] A hill. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
More \More\, n. [AS. more, moru; akin to G. m["o]hre carrot, OHG. moraha, morha.] A root. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
More \More\, a., compar. [Positive wanting; superl. Most (m[=o]st).] [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. [1913 Webster] He gat more money. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] If we procure not to ourselves more woe. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Whilst sisters nine, which dwell on Parnasse height, Do make them music for their more delight. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] The more part knew not wherefore they were come together. --Acts xix. 32. [1913 Webster] Wrong not that wrong with a more contempt. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (b) Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; -- with the plural. [1913 Webster] The people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. --Ex. i. 9. [1913 Webster] 2. Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more worlds to conquer. [1913 Webster] With open arms received one poet more. --Pope. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
More \More\, n.
1. A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds
or surpasses in any way what it is compared with.
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And the children of Israel did so, and gathered,
some more, some less. --Ex. xvi. 17.
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2. That which is in addition; something other and further; an
additional or greater amount.
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They that would have more and more can never have
enough. --L'Estrange.
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O! That pang where more than madness lies. --Byron.
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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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
More \More\, adv.
1. In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or
degree.
(a) With a verb or participle.
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Admiring more
The riches of Heaven's pavement. --Milton.
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(b) With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix
-er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable;
more active; more sweetly.
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Happy here, and more happy hereafter. --Bacon.
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Note: Double comparatives were common among writers of the
Elizabeth period, and for some time later; as, more
brighter; more dearer.
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The duke of Milan
And his more braver daughter. --Shak.
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2. In addition; further; besides; again.
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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.
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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.
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Those oracles which set the world in flames,
Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
More \More\, v. t. To make more; to increase. [Obs.] --Gower. [1913 Webster]
