St. Lawrence

St. Lawrence

noun
1.
a river in SE Canada, flowing NE from Lake Ontario, forming part of the boundary between New York and Ontario, and emptying into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 760 miles (1225 km) long.
2.
Gulf of, an arm of the Atlantic between SE Canada and Newfoundland.
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Law·rence

[lawr-uhns, lor-]
noun
1.
D(avid) H(erbert), 1885–1930, English novelist.
2.
Ernest O(rlando), 1901–58, U.S. physicist: inventor of the cyclotron; Nobel prize 1939.
3.
Gertrude, 1901?–52, English actress.
4.
Jacob, 1917–2000, U.S. painter and educator.
5.
James, 1781–1813, U.S. naval officer in the War of 1812.
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6.
Saint. Also, Lorenzo. Latin, Laurentius. died a.d. 258?, early church martyr.
7.
Sir Thomas, 1769–1830, English painter.
8.
T(homas) E(dward) (T. E. Shaw; “Lawrence of Arabia”), 1888–1935, English archaeologist, adventurer, soldier, and writer.
9.
a city in NE Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River. 63,175.
10.
a city in E Kansas, on the Kansas River. 52,738.
11.
a town in central Indiana. 25,591.
12.
a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “a man of Laurentum.”
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st. lawrence

noun
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
2. a North American river; flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the North Atlantic [syn: Saint Lawrence
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