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An icicle. [Prov. Eng.]

A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.

Brittle; easily broken. [Obs. or Prov.] Spenser. As stubborn steel excels the brickle glass. Turbervile.

Brittleness. [Obs.]

A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. Shak. They know how fickle common lovers are. Dryden.

The quality of being fickle; instability; inconsonancy. Shak.

A bushel basket. [Obs.]

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

The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also nicker pecker.

Overmuch. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

A troublesome child; as, a little pickle. [Colloq.] To be in a pickle, to be in disagreeable position; to be in a condition of embarrassment, difficulty, or disorder. "How cam'st thou in this pickle" Shak. -- To put a rod in pickle, to prepare a particular reproof, punishment, or penalty for future application.…

A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring. [Obs.] Shak.

Preserved in a pickle.

One who makes pickles.

A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close. [Obs.] [Written also pickle.]

To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points. Felt a horror over me creep, Prickle skin, and catch my breath. Tennyson.

The stickleback.

a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap. When corn has once felt the sickle, it has no more benefit from the sunshine. Shak.

of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer.