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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--welkin This week's theme: Words with hidden animals. welkin (WEL-kin) noun The sky or heaven. [From Old English wolcen (cloud).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "The MPs made the welkin, or at least the chamber, shake with mockery." Simon Hoggart; Master of the Euro Flimflam Mountain; The Guardian (London, UK); Jun 26, 2007. X-Bonus I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)

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