Crossword clues for welkin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Welkin \Wel"kin\, n. [OE. welken, welkene, welkne, wolcne, weolcne, AS. wolcen, pl. wolcnu, a cloud; akin to D. wolk, OFries. wolken, OS. wolkan, G. wolke, OHG. wolchan, and probably to G. welk withered, OHG. welc moist, Russ. & OSlav. vlaga moisture, Lith. vilgyti to moisten.] The visible regions of the air; the vault of heaven; the sky.
On the welkne shoon the sterres lyght.
--Chaucer.
The fair welkin foully overcast.
--Spenser.
When storms the welkin rend.
--Wordsworth.
Note: Used adjectively by Shakespeare in the phase, ``Your welkin eye,'' with uncertain meaning.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sky" (poetic), Old English wolcen "cloud," also "sky, heavens," from Proto-Germanic *welk- (cognates: Old Saxon wolkan, Old Frisian wolken, Middle Dutch wolke, Dutch wolk, Old High German wolka, German Wolke "cloud," from PIE *welg- "wet" (cognates: Lithuanian vilgyti "to moisten," Old Church Slavonic vlaga "moisture," Czech vlhky "damp").
Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) The sky, the upper air; the heavens.
WordNet
n. the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected [syn: celestial sphere, sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, vault of heaven]
Wikipedia
Welkin is an archaic, English term; it refers to the sky, the upper air, the firmament, the heavens or the Celestial sphere. Especially the highest celestial sphere i.e. the empyrean.
It may also refer to:
- Welkin Gunther, the protagonist in Valkyria Chronicles
- Welkin Lords, characters in the 16th century, Chinese novel, Fengshen Yanyi
- Welkin Mill, Lower Bredbury, Manchester cotton mill
- Welkin Weasels, a series of fantasy novels by Garry Kilworth
- Westland Welkin, a British World War 2 high-altitude fighter aircraft
- Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, an album by Norwegian black metal band Emperor
Usage examples of "welkin".
Welkin steeled himself to charge the jabbers who were now lobbing arrows at them from a thicket eighty yards away.
Wearing riot gear and carrying snap guns they ran helter-skelter down a long corridor, dragging Welkin and Lucida like rag dolls between them.
The stench was worse than anything Welkin or Lucida had ever experienced.
They had walked for half an hour and Welkin and Lucida were completely disoriented.
Both Lucida and Welkin each took hold of two near-blinded kids and followed Harry, who knew the way.
Amid cheers that rent the welkin, responded to by answering cheers from a big muster of henchmen on the distant Cambrian and Caledonian hills, the mastodontic pleasureship slowly moved away saluted by a final floral tribute from the representatives of the fair sex who were present in large numbers while, as it proceeded down the river, escorted by a flotilla of barges, the flags of the Ballast office and Custom House were dipped in salute as were also those of the electrical power station at the Pigeonhouse and the Poolbeg Light.
To their faith already was unrolled over them that new firmament in whose spanless welkin no cloudy tempests ever gather and break, and the serene lights never fade nor go down.
She was too old a woman to be Welkin Alauda, but not too old for a Welkin who had lived millions of years outside of time.
While the chiefs thus revelled in hall, and made the rafters resound with bursts of loyalty and old Scottish songs, chanted in voices cracked and sharpened by the northern blast, their merriment was echoed and prolonged by a mongrel legion of retainers, Canadian voyageurs, half-breeds, Indian hunters, and vagabond hangers-on who feasted sumptuously without on the crumbs that fell from their table, and made the welkin ring with old French ditties, mingled with Indian yelps and yellings.
A streak of yellow light slashed out of the east, and at its tip a fireball exploded, scattering trails of luminance across a quarter of the welkin.
She merely looked at me, earnestly, with her welkin eyes wide open--the lenses sliding around--tears torrenting, suppressing, or making an effort to hold back, big, blubbery, gasping sobs-- she was destroying me.