(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

Usage examples of mickle.

Blew the great gonne tae flinders, it did, sent a' the gonners tae meet Auld Clootie, fired a' the timbers alang wi' fu' mickle caskets a' poudre!

And sure he was a man of mickle might,Had he had gouernance, it well to guide:But when the franticke fit inflamd his spright,His force was vaine, and strooke more often wide,Then at the aymed marke, which he had eide:And oft himselfe he chaunst to hurt vnwares,Whilst reason blent through passion, nought descride,But as a blindfold Bull at randon fares,And where he hits, nought knowes, & whom he hurts, nought cares.

Mickle thocht we o' the gentles ayont the sea, an' sair grat we for a' frien's we kent lang syne in oor ain countree.

At last through wrath and vengeaunce making way,He on the bancke arriu'd with mickle paine,Where the third brother him did sore assay,And droue at him with all his might and maineA forrest bill, which both his hands did straine.

First gan he tell, how this that seem'd so faireAnd royally arayd, Duessa hight,That false Duessa, which had wrought great care,And mickle mischiefe vnto many a knight,By her beguyled, and confounded quight:But not for those she now in question came,Though also those mote question'd be aright,But for vyld treasons, and outrageous shame,Which she against the dred Mercilla oft did frame.

His carriage was full comely and vpright,His countenaunce demure and temperate,But yet so sterne and terrible in sight,That cheard his friends, and did his foes amate:He was an Elfin borne of noble state,And mickle worship in his natiue land.

Which when the Romanes heard, they hither sentConstantius, a man of mickle might,With whom king Coyll made an agreement,And to him gaue for wife his daughter bright,Faire Helena, the fairest liuing wight.

Mickle a drap o' water has passed beneath mony a bridge since Tully last heard fresh tidings.

There he this knight of her begot, whom borneShe of his father Marinell did name,And in a rocky caue as wight forlorne,Long time she fostred vp, till he becameA mightie man at armes, and mickle fameDid get through great aduentures by him donne:For neuer man he suffred by that sameRich strond to trauell, whereas he did wonne,But that he must do battell with the Sea-nymphes sonne.

So long these knights discoursed diuersly,Of straunge affaires, and noble hardiment,Which they had past with mickle ieopardy,That now the humid night was farforth spent,And heauenly lampes were halfendeale ybrent:Which th'old man seeing well, who too long thoughtEuery discourse and euery argument,Which by the houres he measured, besoughtThem go to rest.

Mickle, weakened though she was, would have gone immedi ately with Constantine to Eschbach or the nearest Reg ian headquarters.

Trust thou well, said the good man, thou farest mickle the better for his prayer.

Never mind, many a mickle makes a muckle, as somebody once said to someone else.

Norman said, Many a mickle makes a muckle, and it was clear that his thoughts were elsewhere.

Mickle, was that she might as well have been raised by wolves, given the pack of guardians to which she was subjected.