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.
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2. (Bot.) A genus of scrophulariaceous plants; the speedwell.
See Speedwell.
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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.
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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>.
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