Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

More

More (mōr) , noun

[Anglo-Saxon mōr. See Moor a waste.]

A hill. [Provincial English] — Halliwell

More , noun

[Anglo-Saxon more, moru; akin to German mohre carrot, Old High German moraha, morha.]

A root. [Obsolete] — Chaucer

More (mōst) , a., compar.

[Old English more, mare, and (orig. neut. and adv.) mo, ma, Anglo-Saxon māra, and (as neut. and adv.) mā; akin to Dutch meer, Old Saxon mēr, German mehr, Old High German mēro, mēr, Icelandic meiri, meirr, Danish meere, meer, Swedish mera, mer, Gothic maiza, a., mais, adv., and perh. to Latin major greater, compar. of magnus great, and magis, adv., more. r103. Compare Most, uch, Major.]

1.
Greater; superior; increased;
(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
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. — Shakespeare

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.

(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

More , noun

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
Collocations (3)
Any more , (a) Anything or something additional or further; as, I do not need any more. [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. [Obsolete] — Chaucer All cried, both less and more. — Shakespeare

More , adverb

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
The duke of Milan And his more braver daughter. — Shakespeare
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
Those oracles which set the world in flames, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more. — Byron

More , transitive verb

To make more; to increase. [Obsolete] — Gower