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Massachusetts   /mˌæsətʃˈusəts/   Listen
Massachusetts

noun
1.
A state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies.  Synonyms: Bay State, MA, Old Colony.
2.
A member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived around Massachusetts Bay.  Synonym: Massachuset.
3.
One of the British colonies that formed the United States.  Synonym: Massachusetts Bay Colony.
4.
The Algonquian language of the Massachuset.  Synonym: Massachuset.



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... Mollugo. In Eastern Massachusetts. Babies' breath, Muscari botryoides. In Eastern Massachusetts. Babies' feet, Polygala paucifolia. In New Hampshire. Babies' slippers, Polygala paucifolia. In Western Massachusetts. Babies' toes, Polygala paucifolia. In Hubbardston, Mass. Baby blue-eyes, Nemophila insignis. In Sta. ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain

... pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of equality had been developed in Europe without special reference to questions of distinct race or color. But the terms, which are universal and as broad as humanity in their denotation, came to be applied to black men as well as to white men. Massachusetts embodied in her state constitution in 1780 the words, "All men are born free and equal," and the courts ruled that these words in the state constitution had the effect of liberating the slaves and of giving to them the same rights ...
— The Anti-Slavery Crusade - Volume 28 In The Chronicles Of America Series • Jesse Macy

... to any extent the riches of this country, especially Carolina, and in this state the late Dr. Curtis and H. W. Ravenel continued their labours. With the exception of Lea's collections in Cincinnati, Wright's in Texas, and some contributions from Ohio, Alabama, Massachusetts, and New York, a great portion of this vast country is mycologically unknown. It is remarkably rich in fleshy fungi, not only in Agaricini, but also in Discomycetes, containing a large number of European ...
— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

... some places, to eat baked sweet apples with milk; and the practice is by no means a bad one. Indeed, baked or raw apples might be advantageously made a part of at least one of our meals every day. There is said to be a miserly farmer—a single gentleman—in the western part of the state of Massachusetts, who has lived on nothing but apples for his food, and water for his drink, about forty years. And yet he is said to enjoy the most perfect health. I do not propose this as an example worthy of imitation; but it shows that ...
— The Young Mother - Management of Children in Regard to Health • William A. Alcott

... of Kansas, where he took the degree of A.B. in 1909 (Phi Beta Kappa) and of A.M. in 1911. Mr. Wattles took up the profession of teaching and was instructor in English at the High School, Leavenworth, Kan., 1910-11, leaving this position to go East and become one of the staff of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, where he remained until 1914, when he returned to his alma mater, the University of Kansas. He is still assistant in the English department of that college. He has published as yet but one collection, "Lanterns in Gethsemane", 1917, a volume ...
— The Second Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse


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