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mickle

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mickle  \Mic"kle\,  a.  [OE.  mikel,  muchel,  mochel,  mukel  AS 
  micel,  mycel  akin  to  OS  mikil  OHG.  mihil,  mihhil  Icel. 
  mikill  mykill  Goth.  mikils  L.  magnus,  Gr  ?,  gen.  ?;  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [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";  "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}]




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