Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BOTH'NIC, or BOTH'NI-AN, a.

Pertaining to Bothnia, a province of Sweden, and to a gulf of the Baltic sea, which is so called from the province, which it penetrates. Pinkerton uses Bothnic, as a noun for the gulf, and Barlow uses Bothnian, in the same manner. – Pink. Art. Sweden. Columb. 9, 564.