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To fall in drops; to pour. [Obs.] Such a rain down from the welkin shadde. Chaucer.

To expand, as a sheet. The star shot flew from the welkin blue, As it fell from the sheeted sky. J. R. Drake. To sheet home (Naut.), to haul upon a sheet until the sail is as flat, and the clew as near the wind, as possible.

. [Obs.] [A wind] that blew so hideously and high, That it ne lefte not a sky In all the welkin long and broad. Chaucer.

success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey. Welkome the coming, speed the parting guest. Pope. God speed you, them, etc., may God speed you; or, may you have good speed.

A spelk, or splinter. [Obs.] Holland.

f the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti.

nsisting of three series of strata, which are called in German the Bunter sandstein, Muschelkalk, and Keuper.

Vaulted. "The haughty vauty welkin." [Obs.] Taylor (1611).

The American elk (Cervus Canadensis). It is closely related to the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size.

To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to. Horns whelked and waved like the enridged sea. Shak.

The wapiti, or wapiti, or American elk.

To welk, or wither. [Obs.]

A pustule; a whelk. Wiseman.

A kind of mollusk, a whelk. [Prov. Eng.]

-- Whistling swan. (Zoöl.) (a) The European whooper swan; -- called also wild swan, and elk. (b) An American swan (Olor columbianus). See under Swan. -- Whistling teal (Zoöl.), a tree duck, as Dendrocygna awsuree of India. -- Whistling thrush. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of singing birds of the genus Myi…

See Whelk. [Obs.]

A sharp, loud, hideous outcry. Their hideous yells Rend the dark welkin. J. Philips.