单词 | bothnic |
释义 | Bothnicadj. Of, belonging to, or designating (part of) the Gulf of Bothnia or the lands surrounding it; = Bothnian adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Russia, the Russian Empire, or the Soviet Union > [adjective] > Baltic lands Balticc1590 Bothnian1611 Bothnic1615 Ingrian1781 1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 678 All the tract of the Finland sea, which is aboue foure hundred miles long; that of the Bothnicke sea [Fr. mer Bothnique] which is almost twice as much. 1680 Eng. Atlas I. sig. Aaav/2 These Finns..liv'd for an age or more upon the Bothnic Coasts. 1700 C. Davenant Disc. Grants & Resumptions iii. 86 Rivers which empty themselves into the Botnick Bay and the Russian, or White Sea. 1773 J. Macpherson Diss. in Poems of Ossian (new ed.) I. Pref. p. xii Suecia's chiefs were slain, Or forced to wander o'er the Bothnic main. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Destiny of Nations in Sibylline Leaves 299 As along The Bothnic coast.., Leviathan.., In sports unwieldy toss his Island bulk. 1869 Med. Times & Gaz. 25 Dec. 731/2 (caption) At Helsingland, in the Bothnic Gulf, leprosy occurs in a small district. 1919 Internat. Mil. Digest Ann. 1918 479/1 The waters which surround the coasts of Sweden.., namely, the Bothnic Bay, the Bothnic Sea, [etc.]. 2008 T. Edgren in S. Brink & N. Price Viking World xxv. 480 The Bothnic ski is typically short.., and many of the known examples are beautifully decorated. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1615 |
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