Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812;
the poem was later set to music and entitled `The Star-Spangled Banner' (1779-1843);
[syn: Key, Francis Scott Key]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Francis Scott Key
n 1: United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after
witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War
of 1812; the poem was later set to music and entitled `The
Star-Spangled Banner' (1779-1843) [syn: Key, Francis
Scott Key]