Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AN-DROM'E-DA, n.

1. A northern constellation, behind Pegasus, Cassiopeia and Perseus, representing the figure of a woman chained. The stars in this constellation, in Plotemy's catalogue, are 23; in Tycho's, 22; in Bayer's, 27; in Flamstead's, 84.
2. The name of a celebrated tragedy of Euripides, now lost. – Encyc.
3. Also a genus of plants.