Definition of Veronica

a vernacle.

Lockhart fan to whom Harry was addressing a letter when he first heard the Basilisk's voice.

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
A genus scrophulariaceous plants; the speedwell. See Speedwell.
  

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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. &?;, fr. macedonian &?;, for gr. &?;, 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.
2. (bot.) a genus scrophulariaceous plants; the speedwell. see speedwell.
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.
veronica
n : any plant of the genus veronica [syn: speedwell]

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 veronica chamaedrys 
 veronica agrestis 
 veronica serpyllifolia 
 veronica michauxii 
 veronica officinalis 
 veronica americana 
 veronica arvensis 
 veronica peregrina 
 veronica beccabunga 
 veronica anagallis-aquatica 

search engine for the Internet (acronym from Very Easy, Rodent-Oriented, Net-wide, Index of Computerised Archives)

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Noun
1. any plant of the genus Veronica
(synonym) speedwell
(hypernym) flower
(hyponym) field speedwell, Veronica agrestis
(member-holonym) genus Veronica

Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide Index to Computerized Archives

Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Network Index to Computerized Archives (Internet)

Very East Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archies. An index searcher of Gopher repositories. Searches are based on keyword criteria to help users find Gopher-based information without doing a menu-by-menu, site-by-site search.

Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-Wide Index to Computer Archives [Internet]

Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide Index to Computerized Archives

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Veronica is a tool to find information on a Gopher site via specified keywords supplied by the user. Veronica actually stands for Very Easy Rodent Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerised Archives

Acronym for "Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives."
(Prehistoric!) searchable database of documents on Gopher servers .

This is a search utility that helps find information on gopher servers. Veronica allows users to enter keywords to locate the gopher site holding the desired information. The name is an acronym for "very easy rodent oriented net-wide index of computerized archives."

(Very Easy Rodent Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives) -- Developed at the University of Nevada, Veronica is a constantly updated database of the names of almost every menu item on thousands of gopher servers. The Veronica database can be searched from most major gopher menus.

VERONICA ( Very Easy Rodent Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives )
The gopher based search that works with an index of gopher menus around the world.In addition to native gopher data,veronica includes references to many resources provided by other types of information servers,such as WWW servers,usenet archives,and telnet-accessible information services.

(Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide Index to Computer Archives). A program that lets users search "Gopherspace" by keyword.

The name actually stands for "Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide Index to Computerized Archives." Pretty weird, I know. The "rodent" part of the acronym refers to how the Veronica utility allows you to search all of the world's gopher servers using key words. (That's about 10 million items from over 6,000 gopher servers.) After searching for the terms, Veronica will the display a list of gopher menus and articles containing the key words you searched for. The more recent versions of Veronica can also search certain web pages, newsgroups, and FTP sites. However, unlike most search engines, Veronica searches for keywords only in gopher server menu titles, and doesn't look throught the entire text of documents. When searching with Veronica, you can use the logical operators AND, NOT, OR to help narrow your search. Also, typing an asterisk (*) at the end of a word will match anything starting with the word. Sound familar to any Unix users?

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