ge-mêting, st. f., _meeting, hostile coming together_: nom. sg., 2002. meagol, adj., _mighty, immense; formal, solemn_: instr. pl. meaglum wordum, 1981. mearc, st. f., _frontier, limit, end_: dat. sg. tô mearce (_the end of life_), 2385.--Comp. Weder-mearc, 298. ge-mearc, st. n., _measure, distance_: comp. fôt-, mîl-ge-mearc. mearcian, w. v., _to mark, stain_: pres. ind. sg. mearcað môrhopu (_will stain, mark, the moor with the blood of the corpse_), 450. ge-mearcian, the same: pret. part. (Cain) morðre gemearcod (_murder-marked_ [cf. 1 Book Mos. IV. 15]), 1265; swâ wäs on þæm scennum ... gemearcod ... hwâm þät sweord geworht wære (_engraved for whom the sword had been wrought_), 1696. mearc-stapa, w. m., _march-strider, frontier-haunter_ (applied to Grendel and his mother): nom. sg., 103; acc. pl. mearc-stapan, 1349. mearh, st. m., _horse, steed_: nom. pl. mearas, 2164; acc. pl. mearas, 866, 1036; dat. pl. inst. mearum, 856, 918; mearum and mâðmum, 1049, 1899; gen. pl. meara and mâðma, 2167. mearn. See murnan. meodu. See medu. meoto. See met. meotud. See metod. meowle, w. f., _maiden_: comp. geó-meowle. micel, adj., _great, huge, long_ (of time): nom. sg. m., 129, 502; fem., 67, 146, 170; neut., 772; acc. sg. m. micelne, 3099; fem, micle, 1779, 3092; neut. micel, 270, 1168. The comp. mâre must be supplied before þone in: medo-ärn micel ... (mâre) þone yldo beam æfre ge-frunon, 69; instr. sg. ge-trume micle, 923; micle (_by much, much_); micle leófre (_far dearer_), 2652; efne swâ micle (lässa), (_[less] even by so much_), 1284; oftor micle (_much oftener_), 1580; dat. sg, weak form miclan, 2850; gen. sg. miclan, 979. The gen. sg. micles is an adv. = _much, very_: micles wyrðne gedôn (_deem worthy of much_, i.e. honor very highly), 2186; tô fela micles (_far too much, many_), 695; acc. pl. micle, 1349. Compar., see mâra.