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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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... the Lutheran states were left at the mercy of the Catholic League. Brandenburg openly espoused the imperialist cause and aided Ferdinand's generals in expelling the Danish king from German soil. Only the lack of naval control of the Baltic and North seas prevented the victors from seizing Denmark. The desperation of Christian and the growingly suspicious activity of Sweden resulted in the peace of Lubeck (1629), by which the king of Denmark was left in possession of Jutland, Schleswig, and Holstein, ...

— A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. • Carlton J. H. Hayes

... no more. I was not so lucky (or so unlucky) as to hear these her last notes, as it was early in the winter, and I was not in town. She returned to Russia, and was a great sufferer by the burning of Moscow. After that she lived at Mitlau, or some other town near the Baltic, where she died at a great age, ...

— The Merry-Go-Round • Carl Van Vechten

... v. Stone Tracy Co.[1504] is the same. Here what was in form an income tax was sustained as a tax on the privilege of doing business as a corporation, the value of the privilege being measured by the income, including income from investments. Similarly, in Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co.[1505] a tax on the annual production of mines was held to be "independently of the effect of the operation of the Sixteenth Amendment * * * not a tax upon property as such because of its ownership, but a true excise levied ...

— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

... Grimsby with a Canadian cargo; then on a short trip to Liverpool; then back to Quebec; and some ten or eleven months after leaving Arendal, they were on a voyage from Memel in the Baltic to New York, with a cargo of timber, planks, and pipe-staves—the intention being to call in at the home port, for which she had some general cargo, to ...

— The Pilot and his Wife • Jonas Lie

... eastwards. It could not do double work at Vienna and at Frankfort. The impotence of the Frankfort Diet could be cured only by the North Germans, and the aspirations of good patriots, from Baden to the Baltic, had been for long directed towards Prussia. But it was no easy task to make people in England realize the justice of this view or the certainty that Prussia was strong enough to carry through the work. Led by The Times, the British Press had grown accustomed to use a contemptuous tone ...

— Victorian Worthies - Sixteen Biographies • George Henry Blore

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