Mickle

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mickle \Mic"kle\ (m[i^]k"k'l), a. [OE. mikel, muchel, mochel,
     mukel, AS. micel, mycel; akin to OS. mikil, OHG. mihil,
     mihhil, Icel. mikill, mykill, Goth. mikils, L. magnus, Gr.
     me`gas, gen. mega`loy; cf. Skr. mahat. [root]103. Cf. {Much},
     {Muckle}, {Magnitude}.]
     Much; great. [Written also {muckle} and {mockle}.] [Old Eng.


     & Scot.] "A man of mickle might." --Spenser.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mickle
       n : (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
           "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of
           money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must
           have cost plenty" [syn: {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good
           deal}, {great deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess},
            {mint}, {muckle}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty}, {pot}, {quite
           a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate}, {stack}, {tidy
           sum}, {wad}, {whole lot}, {whole slew}]