 |  |  | | | Word of the Day for Wednesday, January 8, 2014 welkin \WEL-kin\, noun: the sky; the vault of heaven. As the elegant coach trotted through the warm night air, Rome leaned back and gazed at the welkin, trying to guess which star Home orbited about.
-- Mark S. Geston, Lords of the Starship, 1967 Down washed the rain, deep lowered the welkin; the clouds, ruddy a while ago, had now, through all the blackness, turned deadly pale, as if in terror.
-- Charlotte Brontë, Villette, 1853 Welkin comes from the Old English word welcn which meant "cloud." It was a cognate of the German word Wolke, which also meant "cloud." Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help |
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