(lôr′əns, lor′-)
A masculine personal name. [<L, prob, a laurel]
—Lawrence, Saint
Christian martyr of the third century.

(lôr′əns, lor′-)
A city on the Merrimac River in NE Massachusetts.

(lôr′əns, lor′-), D(avid) H(erbert),
1885–1930, English novelist and poet.
—Ernest Orlando,
1901–58, U. S. physicist.
—Sir Thomas,
1769–1835, English painter.
—T(homas) E(dward),
1888–1935, English soldier, archeologist, adventurer, and writer: known as Lawrence of Arabia: changed his surname to Shaw after 1927.