\More\, n. [AS. m[=o]r. See {Moor} a waste.]
A hill. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

\More\, n. [AS. more, moru; akin to G. m["o]hre carrot,
OHG. moraha, morha.]
A root. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

\More\, a., compar. [Positive wanting; superl. {Most}.]
[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.
             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.

\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. ``All
   cried, both less and more.'' --Chaucer.

\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. ``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 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.

\More\, v. t.
To make more; to increase. [Obs.] --Gower.