stanley | (n) United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918), Syn. Francis Edgar Stanley |
stanley | (n) Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904), Syn. Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Henry M. Stanley, John Rowlands |
stanleya | (n) prince's plume, Syn. genus Stanleya |
stanley steamer | (n) a steam-powered automobile |
baldwin | (n) English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1867-1947), Syn. Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley |
desert plume | (n) perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome, Syn. Stanleya pinnata, Cleome pinnata, prince's-plume |
eddington | (n) English astronomer remembered for his popular elucidation of relativity theory (1882-1944), Syn. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington |
gardner | (n) writer of detective novels featuring Perry Mason (1889-1970), Syn. Erle Stanley Gardner |
hall | (n) United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924), Syn. G. Stanley Hall, Granville Stanley Hall |
jevons | (n) English economist and logician who contributed to the development of the theory of marginal utility (1835-1882), Syn. William Stanley Jevons |
kubrick | (n) United States filmmaker (born in 1928), Syn. Stanley Kubrick |
laurel | (n) United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965), Syn. Arthur Stanley Jefferson Laurel, Stan Laurel |
musial | (n) United States baseball player (born in 1920), Syn. Stan the Man, Stanley Frank Musial, Stan Musial |
stevens | (n) United States psychologist and psychophysicist who proposed Stevens' power law to replace Fechner's law (1906-1973), Syn. Smitty Stevens, Stanley Smith Stevens, S. Smith Stevens |