Definition of "muchell"

muchell

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