maroon2 (maron)

and a. marroon; word) obs. E. symar on ) for *cimarron, see cyma, cyme.] 1. n. 1. One of a cla of negroes, originally fugitive slaves, living in the wilder parts of Jamaica and Dutch Guiana. In both of these localities they were often at war with the whites, but were never fully subdued; and in the latter country, where they are called bush -negroes, they still form a large independent community profe ing a mongrel species of paganism. Maroons are found also in some of the other West Indian islands. -excursion. [Southern U. S.] II. a. Same as ferall, 2.