Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CIM-ME'RI-AN, a.

Pertaining to Cimmerium, a town at the mouth of the Palus Mæotis. The ancients pretended that this country was involved in darkness; whence the phrase Cimmerian darkness, to denote a deep or continual obscurity. The country is now called Crimea, or Krim-Tartary.