  It is generally believed that pulsars dissipate their rotational energy
through powerful winds of relativistic particles. Confinement of these winds
leads to the formation of luminous pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) seen across the
electromagnetic spectrum in synchrotron and inverse Compton emission. Recently,
many new detections have been produced at the highest energies by Very High
Energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations identifying PWNe as among the most common
sources of galactic VHE gamma -ray emission. We report here on the preliminary
results of a search for VHE gamma-ray emission towards a selection of energetic
and/or close pulsars in the Norther hemisphere in the first years of operations
of the full VERITAS array.
