Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Maryland
Maryland, proper n. [Mary < Heb. Miriam, sea of bitterness + land.]
Eastern State of the United States; former British colony named after English Queen Henrietta Maria in 1632; [historical] death place of Francis H. Dickinson, who was the first Amherst casualty in the Civil War.
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