| gulf of saint lawrence | (n) an arm of the northwest Atlantic Ocean off the southeastern coast of Canada, Syn. Gulf of St. Lawrence |
| lawrence | (n) 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. Laurentius, Saint Lawrence, St. Lawrence |
| lawrence | (n) 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. Thomas Edward Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia |
| lawrence | (n) English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830), Syn. Sir Thomas Lawrence |
| lawrence | (n) English actress (1898-1952), Syn. Gertrude Lawrence |
| lawrence | (n) United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958), Syn. E. O. Lawrence, Ernest Orlando Lawrence |
| lawrence | (n) English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930), Syn. David Herbert Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence |
| lawrence | (n) a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856 |
| saint lawrence | (n) a North American river; flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the North Atlantic, Syn. Saint Lawrence River, St. Lawrence River, St. Lawrence |
| saint lawrence seaway | (n) a seaway involving the Saint Lawrence River and the Great Lakes that was developed jointly by Canada and the United States; oceangoing ships can travel as far west as Lake Superior, Syn. St. Lawrence Seaway |
| berra | (n) United States baseball player (born 1925), Syn. Lawrence Peter Berra, Yogi Berra, Yogi |
| doctorow | (n) United States novelist (born in 1931), Syn. Edgard Lawrence Doctorow, E. L. Doctorow |
| durrell | (n) English writer of Irish descent who spent much of his life in Mediterranean regions (1912-1990), Syn. Lawrence George Durrell, Lawrence Durrell |
| lowell | (n) United States educator and president of Harvard University (1856-1943), Syn. Abbott Lawrence Lowell |
| shirer | (n) United States broadcast journalist who was in Berlin at the outbreak of World War II (1904-1993), Syn. William Lawrence Shirer |
| spider orchid | (n) South American orchid with spiderlike pale-yellow to pale-green flowers, Syn. Brassia lawrenceana |
