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Welkin

//ˈwɛlkɪn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible; the firmament.

    "He leaues the vvelkin vvay moſt beaten playne, / And rapt with vvhirling vvheeles, inflames the ſkyen, / With fire not made to burne, but fayrely for to ſhyne."

  2. 2
    the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected wordnet
  3. 3
    The upper atmosphere occupied by clouds, flying birds, etc.

    "[W]ho you are, and vvhat you vvould are out of my vvelkin, I might ſay Element, but the word is ouer-vvorne."

  4. 4
    The place above the Earth where God or other deities live; heaven.

    "[T]his villanous Poetry vvill vndoe you, by the VVelkin."

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English welken, wolken (“weather; heavens; earlier cloud”), from Old English wolcnu (“sky, heavens”), plural form of wolcn (“cloud”), from Proto-West Germanic *wolkn (“cloud”), from Proto-Germanic *wulkną (“cloud”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥ɡ-no-m, from *welg- (“damp; wet”). Cognate with Dutch wolk (“cloud”), German Wolke (“cloud”).

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