By this time he was cross the ford, Whare in the snaw the chapman smoored; And past the birks and meikle stane, Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; And thro' the whins and by the cairn, Whare hunters fand the murdered bairn; And near the thorn, aboon the well, Whare Mungo's mither hanged hersel.

But Tam kend what was what fu' brawlie: There was ae winsome wench and wawlie, That night enlisted in the core, Lang after kend on Carrick shore (For monie a beast to dead she shot, An' perished monie a bonie boat, And shook baith meikle corn and bear, And kept the country-side in fear).

Meikle, big.

William Julius Mickle was born on the 29th of September, 1734, at Longholm, in the county of Dumfries, of which place his father, Alexander Meikle, or Mickle, a minister of the church of Scotland, was pastor.

E. De Barros; Lafitan; Vincent, in the Periplus of the Erythrean sea; Meikle, in his translation of the Lusiad.

She sent her coachman on horseback to overtake them, which he did at Kilmarnock, and they returned in the morning, when her ladyship was as cagey and meikle taken up with them as if they had gotten her full consent and privilege from the first.

So, there was ae night that my faither cam' hame frae Edinburgh, and, according to his custom, he had a drap in his e'eyet no sae meikle but that he could see a lad or twa hingin' about the house.

In collaboration with Catherine E. Meikle.

MEIKLE, CATHERINE E. Vegetable gardening in color.

In collaboration with Catherine E. Meikle.

MEIKLE, CATHERINE E. Vegetable gardening in color.

There did she swoon wi' meikle care, On fair Kirkconnell lee.

KEMP, GEORGE MEIKLE, architect, born in Moorfoot, Peeblesshire; bred a millwright, became a draughtsman, studied Gothic architecture, and designed the Scott Monument in Edinburgh; was drowned one evening in the Union Canal before the work was finished (1796-1844).

Will nane o' ye stap his tongue?" "Better hae stapt it afore this," said Archee; "he has said ower meikle, or not aneuch, The Deil's malison on thee, fellow, for a prophet of ill!

We hae heard ower meikle already."

"And it does ye meikle credit to have made the request.

" The kirk is meikle, but ye may say mass in ae end o't; or, as I have received it in another form, "If we canna preach in the kirk, we can sing mass in the quire."

He that has a meikle nose thinks ilka ane speaks o't.