Maranham
or MARANHÃO (märän-yang'), a maritime state of Brazil, bounded on the N. by the Atlantic Ocean; area, 150,795 square miles; pop. (1920) about 520,000. The chief city i 920) ity is Maranham, or San Luiz de Maranham, on an island between the mouths of the Mearim and the Itapicurú. It is a well-built town, clean, gay, and hospitable and has a cathedral and bishop's palace, a hospital, a technical school, some sugar and spinning and weaving factories, and docks that admit ships drawing 14 feet.
Pop. about 45,000.
MARASCHINO (mä-räs-kēnō), a fine liquor distilled from a small black wild variety of cherry. The best-known kinds are the maraschino de Zara, from Zara in Dalmatia, and that from Corsica. An inferior kind is made in Germany.