vernicle
English
Noun
vernicle (plural vernicles)
- (obsolete) A veronica (image of Jesus).
- c1386, Langland, “A-text”, in Piers Plowman[1]:
- And þe vernicle bi-fore · for men schulde him knowe
- 1392, Chaucer, “Prologue 685”, in The Canterbury Tales[The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer]:
- A vernicle hadde he sowed on his cappe. / His walet lay biforn him in his lappe.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vernicle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)