a. Obs. [f. L. Baleāris.] = BALEARIC. Hence Balcarian a. and sb., and Balearic a. [L. Baleāric-us], of or pertaining to, sb. a native of, the islands Majorca, Minorca, Iviça, etc. (called by the Romans Baleares insulæ), in the Mediterranean Sea. Balearic Crane: the Crowned Crane.
1576. Lambarde, Peramb. Kent (1862), 299. The Iles named Baleares.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 60. The two Baleare Islands.
1618. Bolton, Florus, III. vi. (1636), 91. The Tuscan Sea … [and] the Balearian.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., Introd. The Crane, balearick or japonian.
1807. Robinson, Archæol. Græca, IV. iv. 348. The Achaians … are thought by some to have excelled the Balearians.
