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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
more adv used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs; "more interesting"; "more beautiful"; "more quickly" Synonym(s): more, to a greater extent Antonym(s): less, to a lesser extent comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent; "he works more now"; "they eat more than they should" Antonym(s): less adj (comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree; "more land"; "more support"; "more rain fell"; "more than a gallon" Synonym(s): more(a), more than Antonym(s): less(a) (comparative of `many' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning greater in number; "a hall with more seats"; "we have no more bananas"; "more than one" Antonym(s): fewer n English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state Synonym(s): More, Thomas More, Sir Thomas More
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
More \More\, n. [AS. m[d3]r. See {Moor} a waste.] A hill. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
More \More\, n. [AS. more, moru; akin to G. m[94]hre carrot, OHG. moraha, morha.] A root. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
More \More\, a., compar. [Positive wanting; superl. {Most}.] [OE. more, mare, and (orig. neut. and adv.) mo, ma, AS. m[be]ra, and (as neut. and adv.) m[be]; akin to D. meer, OS. m[c7]r, G. mehr, OHG. m[c7]ro, m[c7]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. [bd]All cried, both less and more.[b8] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
More \More\, v. t. To make more; to increase. [Obs.] --Gower.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. [bd]Amon trespassed more and more.[b8] --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. [bd]The more he praised in himself, the more he seems to suspect that in very deed it was not in him.[b8] --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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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[94]k, adv., much. [fb]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.