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Less   /lɛs/   Listen
adverb
Less  adv.  Not so much; in a smaller or lower degree; as, less bright or loud; less beautiful.


adjective
Less  adj.  Smaller; not so large or great; not so much; shorter; inferior; as, a less quantity or number; a horse of less size or value; in less time than before. Note: The substantive which less qualifies is often omitted; as, the purse contained less (money) than ten dollars. See Less, n. "Thus in less (time) than a hundred years from the coming of Augustine, all England became Christian."


verb
Less  v. t.  To make less; to lessen. (Obs.)


noun
Less  n.  
1.
A smaller portion or quantity. "The children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less."
2.
The inferior, younger, or smaller. "The less is blessed of the better."


conjunction
Less  conj.  Unless. (Obs.)





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... of all private capitals into a single state capital would make this solution impossible, and would provide no other. The only machinery by which the more efficient directors of labour could be discriminated from the less efficient would be broken. Case of ...
— A Critical Examination of Socialism • William Hurrell Mallock
... of an invitation to the Structural Iron Workers' Union to hold its next annual convention in the town Symphony Hall—the citizen who, for any logical reason, opposes such a proposal—on the ground, say, that Miss Anthony never mounted a horse in her life, or that a dozen leopards would be less useful than a gallows to hang the City Council, or that the Structural Iron Workers would spit all over the floor of Symphony Hall and knock down the busts of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms—this citizen is commonly denounced as ...
— In Defense of Women • H. L. Mencken
... cases may be managed with much smaller means. All through the White Mountains, in summer, you may see people, a whole family often, with a wagon, going from place to place, pitching their tents, eating at farm-houses or hotels, or managing to cook at less cost the food they buy. Our sea-coast presents like chances. With a good tent or two, which costs little, you may go to unoccupied beaches, or by inlet or creek, and live for little. I very often counsel young people to hire a safe ...
— Doctor and Patient • S. Weir Mitchell
... firemen rushed down the street, dragging a line of hose and drenching the onlookers. But, despite their hurry, they halted too soon, and their stream just failed to reach the blazing roof. By now the heat had grown really intense, and the more hardy heroes in the vanguard retreated to less trying positions. The voice of the crowd had arisen to a roar rivalling that of ...
— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach
... period of history, perhaps, has Truth been less simple, more enveloped in complications; for it seemed that all essential notions of humanity had been fused in a great furnace, and ...
— Monsieur de Camors, Complete • Octave Feuillet


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