WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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: Lawrence, 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: Lawrence, 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: Lawrence, Sir Thomas Lawrence]
    4: English actress (1898-1952) [syn: Lawrence, Gertrude
       Lawrence]
    5: United States physicist who developed the cyclotron
       (1901-1958) [syn: Lawrence, 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: Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence, David
       Herbert Lawrence]
    7: a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of
       raids by John Brown in 1856