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Definition of: Mason-Dixon line
(mā′sən·dik′sən)
The boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland as surveyed by the Englishmen Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in 1763–67: before the Civil War it was regarded as dividing Slave States from Free States, and is still used to distinguish the North from the South. Also Mason and Dixon's line.
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