Veronica

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Veronica \Ve*ron"i*ca\, n. [LL.; -- so called from Veronica, a
     woman who, according to an old legend, as Christ was carrying
     the cross, wiped his face with a cloth, which received an
     impression of his countenance; Veronica is fr. MGr.
     Beroni`kh, fr. Macedonian Bereni`kh, for Gr. Fereni`kh,
     literally, carrying off victory, victorious.]


     1. 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}.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Bot.) A genus of scrophulariaceous plants; the speedwell.
        See {Speedwell}.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: Several herbaceous species are common in both Europe
           and America, most of which have small blue flowers. A
           few shrubby species from New Zealand are sometimes
           found in cultivation.
           [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  veronica
       n : any plant of the genus Veronica [syn: {speedwell}]

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  VERONICA
       Very Easy Rodent-Orientated Netwide Index of Computerized Archives
       (Internet)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Veronica
       
           Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index
          to Computerized Archives.  Veronica offers a keyword search of
          most {gopher} menu titles in the entire gopher web.  As
          {archie} is to {FTP} archives, Veronica is to {Gopherspace}.
          A Veronica search produces a menu of Gopher items, each of
          which is a direct pointer to a Gopher data source.  Because
          Veronica is accessed through a Gopher Client, it is easy to
          use, and gives access to all types of data supported by the
          Gopher {protocol}.
       
          To try Veronica, select it from the "Other Gophers" menu on
          Minnesota's gopher server, or point your gopher at:
       
           Name=veronica (search menu items in most of GopherSpace)
           Type=1
           Port=70
           Path=1/veronica
           Host=gopher.scs.unr.edu
       
          {(gopher://gopher.scs.unr.edu/1/veronica)}.