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lewis
1[loo-is]
noun
a device for lifting a dressed stone, consisting of a number of pieces fitting together to fill a dovetailed recess cut into the stone.
Lewis
2[loo-is]
noun
Carl Frederick Carlton Lewis, born 1961, U.S. track and field athlete.
C(live) S(taples) 1898–1963, English novelist and essayist, known for The Chronicles of Narnia. Pen names: Clive Hamilton, N. W. Clerk.
Edward, 1918–2004, U.S. biologist: shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995.
Gilbert Newton, 1875–1946, U.S. chemist.
(Harry) Sinclair, 1885–1951, U.S. novelist, playwright, and journalist: Nobel Prize in Literature 1930.
Henry, 1932–96, U.S. orchestral conductor.
Isaac Newton, 1858–1931, U.S. soldier and inventor.
Jerry Lee, 1935–2022, U.S. country-and-western and rock-'n'-roll singer, musician, and composer.
John (Aaron), 1920–2001, U.S. jazz pianist, composer, and musical director.
John L(lewellyn), 1880–1969, U.S. labor leader.
Matthew Gregory Monk, 1775–1809, English novelist, dramatist, and poet, known for the genre of Gothic horror.
Meriwether 1774–1809, U.S. explorer: leader of the Lewis and Clark expedition 1804–06.
(Percy) Wyndham 1884–1957, English novelist, essayist, and painter who cofounded the movement of vorticism; born in Canada.
R(ichard) W(arrington) B(aldwin), 1917–2002, U.S. biographer, literary critic, and scholar.
a male given name.
Lewis
1/ ˈːɪ /
noun
Carl. full name Frederick Carleton Lewis . born 1961, US athlete; winner of the long jump, 100 metres, 200 metres, and 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1984 Olympic Games; winner of the 100 metres in the 1988 Olympic Games; winner of the long jump in the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games
See Day-Lewis
C ( live ) S ( taples ). 1898–1963, English novelist, critic, and Christian apologist, noted for his critical work, Allegory of Love (1936), his theological study, The Screwtape Letters (1942), and for his children's books chronicling the land of Narnia
Lennox. born 1965, Canadian and British boxer; won Olympic gold (1988) for Canada in the superheavyweight division; won various professional heavyweight titles between 1994 and 2004
Matthew Gregory, known as Monk Lewis. 1775–1818, English novelist and dramatist, noted for his Gothic horror story The Monk (1796)
Meriwether. 1774–1807, American explorer who, with William Clark, led an overland expedition from St Louis to the Pacific Ocean (1804–06)
( John ) Saunders (ˈsɔːndəz). 1893–1985, Welsh poet, dramatist, critic, and politician: founder (1926) and president (1926–39) of the Welsh Nationalist Party
( Harry ) Sinclair. 1885–1951, US novelist. He satirized the complacency and philistinism of American small-town life, esp in Main Street (1920) and Babbitt (1922): Nobel prize for literature 1930
Wally. born 1959, Australian rugby league player; played 33 matches for Australia (1981–91), scoring 11 tries
( Percy ) Wyndham. 1884–1957, British painter, novelist, and critic, born in the US: a founder of vorticism. His writings include Time and Western Man (1927), The Apes of God (1930), and the trilogy The Human Age (1928–55)
Lewis
2/ ˈːɪ /
noun
the N part of the island of Lewis with Harris, in the Outer Hebrides. Pop: about 17 000 (2001). Area: 1634 sq km (631 sq miles)
lewis
3/ ˈːɪən, ˈːɪ /
noun
a lifting device for heavy stone or concrete blocks consisting of a number of curved pieces of metal or wedges fitting into a dovetailed recess cut into the block
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of lewis1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of lewis1
Example Sentences
With his Manuel biography, Lewis succeeds magnificently in transporting us into the musician’s world.
In his biography, Lewis devotes his book’s precious real estate to stories about how Manuel lived and worked, as opposed to the last tragic hours of his existence in a Winter Park, Florida, motel.
In the book’s most memorable instances, Lewis takes us into the heart of the studio as the music is being created.
In that moment, Lewis writes, “Richard’s voice plays the spectral mysterioso, the voice that sounds like everyone’s in the band yet is completely his own.”
“Richard can be heard last and highest in the vocal queue,” Lewis writes.
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