welkin

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For instance, I may be one of the few, but there are some people about who know what a zarf is and what widdershins, welkin, tipsycake [served at The Bell Inn, Aston Clinton, Bucks. -- note for British readers], spitchcock, prick-song, purfle, poop-noddy, misgloze, and a few others mean.

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  1. noun Archaic The vault of heaven; the sky.
  2. noun Archaic The upper air.

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  • And what that height, which girds the welkin-sheen —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
  • The shout which arose from a thousand throats rang to the welkin, and methinks must have smote with dread import upon the English ears. —  A Heroine of France
  • For instance, I may be one of the few, but there are some people about who know what a zarf is and what widdershins, welkin, tipsycake [served at The Bell Inn, Aston Clinton, Bucks. -- note for British readers], spitchcock, prick-song, purfle, poop-noddy, misgloze, and a few others mean. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3
  • Among the less pleasing sounds that fill the welkin are the tonk_, tonk_, tonk of the coppersmith, the kutur_, kutur_, kuturuk of the green barbet, and the calls of the various cuckoos that summer in the plains of Northern India. —  A Bird Calendar for Northern India
  • Among the less pleasing sounds that fill the welkin are the _tonk_, _tonk_, _tonk_ of the coppersmith, the —  A Bird Calendar for Northern India
 

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  1. Middle English welken, from Old English wolcen, weolcen, cloud.

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  1. from Middle English welken, welkine, welkne, walkyn, wolkne, wolene, weolcne, the welkin, the sky, the region of clouds, orig. ‘the clouds,’ from AS wolcnu, clouds, plural of wolcen, a cloud, = Old Saxon wolkan = OFries. wolken, ulken = Middle Dutch wolcke, Dutch wolk = Low German wulke = Old High German wolchan, also wolcha, Middle High German wolken, wolke, German wolke, a cloud; prob. orig. ‘mist, fog, moisture,’ from √ *welg, be moist: see welk. For the transition from ‘cloud’ to ‘sky,’ cf. sky, heaven, orig. ‘cloud.’
 

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