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The more and less

More \More\, n.

  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.

    1. Anything or something additional or further; as, I do not need any more.

    2. 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.