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Welkin

//ˈwɛlkɪn//

Definitions

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.
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ether heavens lift
2
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.
3
The place above the Earth where God or other deities live; heaven.
[T]his villanous Poetry vvill vndoe you, by the VVelkin.

Word Origin

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”), f...

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