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welkin

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈwɛlkɪn/Part of speech nounSorted eiklnwStarts with WEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English welkne (“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”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • The ſkye it ſeemes vvould povvre dovvn ſtinking pitch, / But that the Sea, mounting to th' vvelkins cheeke, / Daſhes the fire out.
  • Come (Sir Page) / Looke on me vvith your VVelkin eye: […]

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