Crossword-Solution: VERNICLE 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Beneath were little packets tied in silk which the old lady handled with tender care: a man’s hunting-glove, a child’s shoe, a love-knot done in faded green ribbon, some letters in rude rough script, and a vernicle of Saint Thomas.

The usual devices on ancient patens were the _Manus Dei_, or hand of God, in the act of blessing; on later ones the vernicle, or face of our Lord; the Holy Trinity; the Holy Lamb; the sacred monogram.

Veronica and the legend connected with her name, a ‘vernicle’; being a napkin with the Saviour’s face portrayed on it; Simon Magus ‘simony’; Mahomet a ‘mammet’ or ‘maumet’, meaning an idol{95}, and ‘mammetry’ or idolatry; ‘dunce’ is from Duns Scotus; while there is a legend that the ‘knot’ or sandpiper is named from Canute or Knute, with whom this bird was a special favourite.

THE SOMNOUR (an officer who summoned persons before the ecclesiastical courts) wears on his head a garland--'as greet as it were for an ale-stake.' [Illustration: {The pardoner}] THE PARDONER has long yellow hair falling about his shoulders; his hood is turned back, and he wears a tall cap, on which is sewn a Vernicle.

Peter's keys, or a 'Vernicle'--that is a pattern of Veronica's handkerchief--sewed on their caps--so the Canterbury Pilgrim had his hat thickset with a 'hundred ampulles' or with leaden brooches.