From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Mickle \Mic"kle\ (m[i^]k"k'l), a. [OE. mikel, muchel, mochel,
mukel, AS. micel, mycel; akin to OS. mikil, OHG. mihil,
mihhil, Icel. mikill, mykill, Goth. mikils, L. magnus, Gr.
me`gas, gen. mega`loy; 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.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mickle
n 1: (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"; "see the
rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must
have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of
money" [syn: {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good deal}, {great
deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess}, {mickle},
{mint}, {mountain}, {muckle}, {passel}, {peck}, {pile},
{plenty}, {pot}, {quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew},
{spate}, {stack}, {tidy sum}, {wad}]
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