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.
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.
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.
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.