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.
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            Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and
            shalt gather but little in.           --Deut.
                                                  xxviii. 38.
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   2. Many in number. [Archaic]
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            Edom came out against him with much people. --Num.
                                                  xx. 20.
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   3. High in rank or position. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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	More \More\ (m[=o]r), n. [AS. m[=o]r. See Moor a waste.]
   A hill. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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	More \More\, n. [AS. more, moru; akin to G. m["o]hre carrot,
   OHG. moraha, morha.]
   A root. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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	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.
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                He gat more money.                --Chaucer.
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                If we procure not to ourselves more woe.
                                                  --Milton.
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   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.
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               Whilst sisters nine, which dwell on Parnasse
               height,
               Do make them music for their more delight.
                                                  --Spenser.
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               The more part knew not wherefore they were come
               together.                          --Acts xix.
                                                  32.
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               Wrong not that wrong with a more contempt.
                                                  --Shak.
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      (b) Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; -- with the
          plural.
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                The people of the children of Israel are more
                and mightier than we.             --Ex. i. 9.
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   2. Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more
      worlds to conquer.
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            With open arms received one poet more. --Pope.
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	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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	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.
                                                  --Milton.
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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.
                                                  --Byron.
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	More \More\, v. t.
   To make more; to increase. [Obs.] --Gower.
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	more
    adv 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]
    adj 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]
    n 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]

	

	82 Moby Thesaurus words for "more":
   a certain number, a few, above, accessory, added, additional,
   additionally, again, all included, along, also, altogether,
   among other things, ancillary, and all, and also, and so, another,
   as well, au reste, auxiliary, beside, besides, better, beyond,
   certain, collateral, composite, contributory, else, en plus,
   ever more, extra, farther, for lagniappe, fresh, further,
   furthermore, greater and greater, growingly, in addition,
   increasingly, inter alia, into the bargain, item, likewise,
   more and more, more than one, moreover, new, nonuniqueness,
   not singular, numerous, numerousness, on and on, on the side,
   on top of, other, over, plural, pluralism, pluralistic, plurality,
   pluralness, plurative, plus, several, similarly, some, spare,
   supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary, surplus, then,
   therewith, to boot, too, ulterior, variety, various, yet

	

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	MORE, adj.  The comparative degree of too much.