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1 meirr
1) more (konungr elskaði Hákon m. en nökkurn mann annan);2) then, after that; sitja m. um sáttir saman, and afterwards sit at peace together;3) with another compar.; firr m., farther off; sunnar m., more to the south.* * *compar., answering to mjök (q. v.), superl. mest; [Ulf. mais = μαλλον, maist = πλειστον; A. S. mâr; Engl. more, most; Scot. mair, maist; Germ. mebr, meist]:—more, and superl. most; meirr ok meirr, more and more, Stj. 468; meirr eptir annarra manna skaplyndi en Lauga-manna, Ld. 212; jafnmargir eða meirr, Grág. i. 336; en þó meirr at mildi, Fms. ii. 296; meirr en, more than; eigi m. en eitt fylki, Fb. i. 40, passim; elska meirr enn nokkurn mann, Fms. i. 17.2. with another comparative; útar meir, sunnar meir, Fms. vii. 260, viii. 353; firr meirr, ‘furthermore,’ still further off, vii. 294; ok því þá fjarr-meir, at engi saurr stökkvi á konunginn, Sks. 365; nær-meir (cp. Dan. nær-mere), more near, Stj. 218; nær meir landi, more near land, Sks. 46; neðar meir, ‘nether-more,’ more below, 167; ofar meir, higher up. Fms. ix. 406; fyrr meir (Engl. for-mer-ly), ‘further back in time,’ formerly, Sks. 193: in former times, síðar meir, later, D. N. i. 122; meir verr, worse, worser, Sturl. i. 12: further, enda vill hann eigi meirr færa til staðar, Grág. i. 257; gékk hann meirr at þat, liðu m. at þat, Rm. 2, 4, 5, etc.II. the superl. mest; þeim var ek verst er ek unni mest, Ld. 334, and in countless instances.
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