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Theft; cheating. [Obs.] Gower.

Hiding; skulking; cowardly. [Colloq.] [Written also meaching and meeching.]

Much; great. [Written also muckle and mockle.] [Old Eng. & Scot.] "A man of mickle might." Spenser.

A tribe of Indians inhabiting Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. [Written also Mikmaks.]

A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus), allied to the marmoset. The name was originally applied to an albino variety.

Same as Microustic.

A genus of sea urchins, similar to Spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation; -- from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows.

Having a small brain.

Small, little, trivial, slight; as, microcosm, microscope.

Of or pertaining to micro-chemistry; as, a micro-chemical test.

The application of chemical tests to minute objects or portions of matter, magnified by the use of the microscopy; -- distinguished from macro-chemistry.

Of or pertaining to micro-geology.

he part of geology relating to structure and organisms which require to be studied with a microscope.

One of the smaller measures of electrical currents; the millionth part of one ampère.

Analysis of the structure of materials from careful observation of photomicrographs.

Spherobacteria, or spherical bacteria, as the genus Micrococcus.

An instrument for recording minor fluctuations of atmospheric pressure, as opposed to general barometric surges.

A microscopic organism; -- particularly applied to bacteria and especially to pathogenic forms; as, the microbe of fowl cholera.

Of, pertaining to, or caused by, microbes; as, the microbian theory; a microbian disease.

Of or pertaining to a microbe.