Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Mickle"
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) 1.7 (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}]
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