Definition of "Baltic"

The Teutonic Knights were newly established in the Baltic region, where they owed their first possessions to Mazovian policy.

1994, S. C. Rowell, Lithuania Ascending, page 9

The Baltic division of the group embraces the Lithuanian and Lettic.

1918, Charles E. Bennett, New Latin Grammar

It's twenty-three degrees outside, freezing is thirty two and with the wind chill factor it's Baltic out there.

2010, Craig Moffat, Standing in the Dark, page 134

Apart from anything else, it's absolutely Baltic outside. In the past 24 hours, a freeze has abruptly descended on the whole of Europe, and here in the northwest corner of France, the cold claws of the Atlantic are particularly sharp.

2012, Richard Moore, Slaying the Badger

Well, you see, I was temporarily in command of the cruiser coming down the Baltic, and passing an island rock a few miles away, I thought it would be a good opportunity to test a new gun that had been put aboard when we left England.

1906, Robert Barr, A Rock in the Baltic

It appears from the evidence, that the corn from the Baltic is often very heavily taxed, and that this tax is generally raised in proportion to our necessities.

1815, Thomas Malthus, Importation of Foreign Corn