Source : WordNet®

Lawrence
     n 1: Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police
          to give up the Church's treasure and when he responded
          by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to
          death on a gridiron (died in 258) [syn: {Saint Lawrence},
           {St. Lawrence}, {Laurentius}]
     2: Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab
        revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his
        adventures (1888-1935) [syn: {T. E. Lawrence}, {Thomas
        Edward Lawrence}, {Lawrence of Arabia}]
     3: English portrait painter remembered for the series of
        portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon
        (1769-1830) [syn: {Sir Thomas Lawrence}]
     4: English actress (1898-1952) [syn: {Gertrude Lawrence}]
     5: United States physicist who developed the cyclotron
        (1901-1958) [syn: {E. O. Lawrence}, {Ernest Orlando
        Lawrence}]
     6: English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned
        industrial society and explored sexual relationships
        (1885-1930) [syn: {D. H. Lawrence}, {David Herbert
        Lawrence}]
     7: a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of
        raids by John Brown in 1856