mickle

1. (archaic, now chiefly Scotland) To a great extent.Examples: "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, […]"Scotlandarchaic

2. (obsolete) Frequently, often.obsolete

1. (archaic, chiefly Scotland) A great amount.Examples: "Many a little makes a mickle."; "Neurthelesse little or mickle, something or nothing, substaunce or shadow take all in good part, my meaning is by a fewe wordes to wynne credit to this works, not so much for mine owne Englishe Translation as for the singular commendation of them, challenged of dutie and desart."; "In a word, I muſt know what I may gaine, little or much: for the henne layes aſwell vpon one egge as many, and many littles make a mickle, and whilſt ſomething is gotten, nothing is loſt."Scotlandarchaiccountableuncountable

2. (archaic, Scotland, originally erroneous) A small amount.Examples: "While we boast of our farming, we must repeat again and again, the secret of our prosperity. It is a regular rotation of crops, making a little out of many articles, rather than attempting to make much of one; remembering the Scotch proverb, that "many a mickle makes a muckle"; […]"Scotlandarchaiccountableuncountable

3. (obsolete) Great or important people as a class.countableobsoleteuncountable

4. (obsolete) Greatness, largeness, stature.countableobsoleteuncountable

1. (archaic, now chiefly Scotland and Northern England, especially Northumbria) Much; a great quantity or amount of.Examples: "There was mickle melody at that Childës [Jesus Christ's] birth, / All that were in heaven's bliss, they made mickle mirth."; "Full many wounds in his corrupted fleſh / He did engraue, and muchell blood did ſpend, / Yet might not doe him die, but aie more freſh / And fierce he ſtill appeard, the more he did them threſh."; "Hees forc't to trot with fardle at his backe, / From houſe to houſe, demaunding if they lacke / A poore yong man that's willing to take paine, / And mickle labour, though for little gaine."Northern-EnglandNorthumbriaScotlandarchaicespecially

2. (archaic, now chiefly Scotland and Northumbria) Most; the majority of.Examples: "[H]e that tellt me saw wi' his ain ee'n, an' heard wi' his ain ears, the mickle part o' what I'm gaun to say—an' what he didna see or hear hissell, he learned frae those wha'd kent a' frae the beginnin'"NorthumbriaScotlandarchaic

1. (archaic, now chiefly Scotland) A great extent or large amount.Examples: "Seek mickle, and get ſomething; ſeek little, and get nothing."Scotlandarchaic