Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Baltic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Baltic \Bal"tic\, a. [NL. mare Balticum, fr. L. balteus belt,
from certain straits or channels surrounding its isles,
called belts. See {Belt}.]
Of or pertaining to the sea which separates Norway and Sweden
from Jutland, Denmark, and Germany; situated on the Baltic
Sea.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Baltic
adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Baltic States
or their peoples or languages [syn: {Baltic}]
2: of or near or on the Baltic Sea; "The Baltic republics"
[syn: {Baltic}]
n 1: a sea in northern Europe; stronghold of the Russian navy
[syn: {Baltic}, {Baltic Sea}]
2: 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 [syn: {Baltic}, {Baltic language}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.