Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DES'ERT
DES'ERT, n.1 [L. desertum.]
An uninhabited tract of land; a region in its natural state; a wilderness; a solitude; particularly, a vast sandy plain, as the deserts of Arabia and Africa. But the word may be applied to an uninhabited country covered with wood.
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