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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Much \Much\ (m[u^]ch), adjective [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, adverb, much. [root]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.
Edom came out against him with much people. --Num. xx. 20.
3. High in rank or position. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
More \More\ (m[=o]r), noun [AS. m[=o]r. See {Moor} a waste.] A hill. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
More \More\, noun [AS. more, moru; akin to G. m["o]hre carrot, OHG. moraha, morha.] A root. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
More \More\, adjective, compar. [Positive wanting; superl. {Most} (m[=o]st).] [OE. more, mare, and (orig. neut. and adverb) mo, ma, AS. m[=a]ra, and (as neut. and adverb) 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, adjective, mais, adverb, and perh. to L. major greater, compar. of magnus great, and magis, adverb, 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.
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 mightier than we. --Ex. i. 9.
2. Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more worlds to conquer.
With open arms received one poet more. --Pope.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
More \More\, verb (used with an object) To make more; to increase. [Obs.] --Gower.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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, O ye 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 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.
Those oracles which set the world in flames, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more. --Byron.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adverb
1: used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs; "more interesting"; "more beautiful"; "more quickly" [syn: {more}, {to a greater extent}] [ant: {less}, {to a lesser extent}]
2: comparative of much; to a greater degree or extent; "he works more now"; "they eat more than they should" [ant: {less}]
adjective
1: (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" [syn: {more(a)}, {more than}] [ant: {less(a)}]
2: (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" [ant: {fewer}]
noun
1: 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 [syn: {More}, {Thomas More}, {Sir Thomas More}]
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