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To wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane. [Obs.] When ruddy Phwelk in west. Spenser. The church, that before by insensible degrees welked and impaired, now with large steps went down hill decaying. Milton.

See Whelked.

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.

of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow. The green earth's end Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend. Milton.

sy color. The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, But stayed, and made the western welkin blush. Shak.

To make brown or dusky. A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves. Barlow.

point, esp. on the toees, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome. Welkome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes Unplagued with corns, will have a bout with you. Shak.

Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure. The welkin pitched with sullen could. Addison.

a ratting noise. Sound but another [drum], and another shall As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear. Shak.

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.

d. [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.

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

To welk, or wither. [Obs.]

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