muchell

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muchell

  1. (archaic, now chiefly Scotland and Northern England, especially Northumbria) Alternative form of mickle.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 32, page 503:
      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.