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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