Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MICHE, v.i. [allied perhaps to Sw. maka, to withdraw; Sax. smugan, to creep. Meeching or meaching, is still used by some of our common people in the sense of mean, cowardly, retiring.]

1. To lie hid; to skulk; to retire or shrink from view.
2. To pilfer. [Obs.] Shak.