Any plant of the genus Veronica

Usage examples of speedwell.

Probability assigns them to the SPEEDWELL, and they are needed to make her accredited number.

The only sensible quality of the Speedwell is the powerful astringency of its leaves, and this property serves to protect it from herbivorous foes.

Arctic bramble, the sloe, goat-weed, Mexican goosefoot, speedwell, wild geranium, veronica, wormwood, juniper, saffron, carduus benedictus, trefoil, wood-sorrel, pepper, mace, scurry grass, plantain, and betony.

They were in bloom, and so were the speedwells, eglantines, thistles, and the sweetbriar that sprang up from the thickets.

At conference of officers of ship and consort and the chief of the Planters, it was decided to send the SPEEDWELL back to London with some 18 or 20 of her passengers, transferring a dozen or more, with part of her lading, to the MAY- FLOWER.

The sky was cloudless and that perfect blue Charles had always called the color of speedwells, which he had said exactly matched her eyes.

High above floated a resplendent sky that was as blue as speedwells and brilliant witn that incredible clarity of light so peculiar to the North of England.

And then, before she knew it, the summer was filling the air with its sweet fragrance as the flowers burst into bloom under warming sunlight and skies that were as blue as speedwells and filled with that glorious northern light.

Then finally passing through one set of sluice gates after another, the Pilgrims were lifted from the canal into a broad receptacle for vessels, then into the outer haven, and so to the side of the SPEEDWELL as she lay at the quay awaiting their arrival.

William Bradford and his wife were certainly of the party in the SPEEDWELL, as shown by his own recorded account of the embarkation.

And before we could recover the fleet a great tempest arose, which caused many of our ships to drive from their anchorhold, and some were forced to sea in great peril, as the bark Talbot, the bark Hawkins, and the Speedwell.

The viewscreen blazed with rainbow light as a shining ovoid shape came plunging in along the vec-tor Speedwell had used, bremsstrahlung fire sleeting and sheeting away from it, dying back to leave only the fierce sheen of RV's light on what was now re-vealed as a great, sleek, egg-shaped hull.

She's engaged to be married to a demonstrator in the Speedwell Auto Company, and he thneaks off when he can get away and gives her joy-rides.

A pretty, self-willed rock, speedwell blue and flecked with gold, it was orbiting no detectable primary body.

Among its British representatives it embraces members so diverse as the Foxglove and Speedwell, the Mullein and Figworts, the Toadflax and the semi-parasites, Eyebright, Bartsia, Cowwheat, and the Red and Yellow Rattles.