welkin

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“You could argue that without retroviruses you wouldn’t have mammals,” says Welkin Johnson, a virologist at Boston College.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 27, 2022

It may be on stage rather than screen, but Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin, currently running at the National Theatre, also applies mordant humour to the anguishes and indignities of reproductive life.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2020

“I vote we land on Welkin Island,” said Charlie.

From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Reed, Talbot Baines

Welkin wasn't able to be very definite, except as to moments, and he had his data almost altogether from his wife.

From Quaint Courtships by Howells, William Dean

Welkin, wel′kin, n. the sky or region of clouds.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various