veronica

A napkin or piece of cloth impressed with the face of Christ: from the legend that a woman named Veronica wiped the face of Christ with her handkerchief when he was on his way to Calvary, and that the likeness of the face was miraculously impressed upon the cloth. Also vernicle.

[capitalized] [NL. (Rivinus, 1690; earlier, about 1554, by Mattioli).] A genus of gamopetalous plants, of the order Scrophularineæ and tribe Digitaleæ, type of the subtribe Veroniceæ.

A portrait or representation of the face of our Savior on the alleged handkerchief of Saint Veronica, preserved at Rome; hence, a representation of this portrait, or any similar representation of the face of the Savior. Formerly called also Vernacle, and Vernicle.

A genus of scrophulariaceous plants; the speedwell. See Speedwell.

The image of Jesus’s face believed to have been made on the cloth with which St Veronica wiped his face as he went to be crucified; or the cloth used for this.

A circular swinging movement of the cape, used to avoid the bull.

A flower of the genus Veronica, usually having blue petals.

any plant of the genus Veronica