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Baltic

adjective

Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Baltic States or their peoples or languages.

Of or near or on the Baltic Sea.

noun

A sea in northern Europe; stronghold of the Russian navy. Synonym: Baltic Sea.

A branch of the Indo-European family of languages related to the Slavonic languages; Baltic languages have preserved many archaic features that are believed to have existed in Proto-Indo European. Synonym: Baltic language.

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"Baltic" Quotes from Famous Books

... have all the improvements in our constitution proceeded? I question if any justice has ever been done to large masses of mankind from any other motive. By what other motives can the plunderers of the Baltic suppose nations to be governed in their intercourse WITH EACH OTHER? If I say, Give this people what they ask because it is just, do you think I should get ten people to listen to me? Would not the lesser of the two ...

— Peter Plymley's Letters and Selected Essays • Sydney Smith

... our hero in the Baltic Sea, aboard the Ganges, detailed for active duty as second in command of the land forces that under Lord Nelson were ordered to the attack on Copenhagen. It was intended that Brock, with the 49th, should lead in storming the Trekroner (Three Crown) ...

— The Story of Isaac Brock - Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 • Walter R. Nursey

... fancied that he recognized, by certain details, the fashion of the costume of Livonia, and thought his neighbor a native of the Baltic provinces. ...

— Michael Strogoff - or, The Courier of the Czar • Jules Verne

... not their original meaning, but they occur "all over the place"; in amber on the Baltic coast, with grotesque faces carved in amber. In Russia and Finland, and in sites of prehistoric Egypt, on slate, and in other materials such grotesques are common. {120b} Egypt is a great centre of the Early Slate School of Art, the things ranging from slate plaques covered ...

— The Clyde Mystery - a Study in Forgeries and Folklore • Andrew Lang

... when her uncle Frederick would come home, but it appeared presently that he was not coming. He wrote that he had laid up the Foam in one of the Danish ports to be ready for the breaking up of the winter and a further exploration of the Baltic coasts, and that he was just starting on a journey into Russia—judging that the beauty of the North is in perfection during the season ...

— The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax • Harriet Parr

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