Mickle

/ˈmɪk(ə)l/ · adjective

Meaning

(archaic, now chiefly Scotland and Northern England, especially Northumbria) (Very) great or large..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic, now chiefly Scotland and Northern England, especially Northumbria) (Very) great or large.
2. (archaic, now chiefly Scotland) To a great extent.
3. (obsolete) Frequently, often.
4. (archaic, chiefly Scotland) A great amount.
5. (archaic, Scotland, originally erroneous) A small amount.
6. (obsolete) Great or important people as a class.
7. (obsolete) Greatness, largeness, stature.
8. (archaic, now chiefly Scotland and Northern England, especially Northumbria) Much; a great quantity or amount of.

Example Sentences

Oh mickle is the powerfull grace that lies / In hearbes, plants, ſtones, and their true qualities: / For nought ſo vile, that vile on earth doth liue, / But to the earth ſome ſpeciall good doth giue: […]

O Jupiter! whose ſtrength is mickle, / Was ever man in ſuch a pickle!

In the Den of Kinraddie one such beast had its lair […] and at gloaming a shepherd would see it, with its great wings half-folded across the great belly of it and its head, like the head of a meikle cock, but with the ears of a lion, poked over a fir tree, watching.

They ſay here, […] that ye deſired not the king and England to agree, becauſe it would rack the noblemen, […] I anſwered in your name that I was aſſured you had never ſpoken it. Mr. Archibald [Douglas] is the ſpeaker of it, who I aſſure your lordſhip has been a poiſon in this matter, for they lean very mickle to his opinion.

[…] I livd in a house by the Tower, which has not been repaird since Robert Consull of Gloucester repayrd the castle and wall; here I livd warm, but in my house on the hyll the ayre was mickle keen, […]

[…] I am without fenzeitnes of hart and ſpreit; and of gude reſſoun, thocht [though] my meritis were mickle greiter than of the maiſt profit that ever was, […]

That I wad wi' a' my heart; and mickle obliged to your honour for putting me in mind o' my bounden duty.

Many a little makes a mickle.

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• more mickle
• most mickle
• mickles
• meikle
• michel
• muchell

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