Magnetic

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A Magnet.

II. Magnetic ·adj ·Alt. of Magnetical.

III. Magnetic ·noun Any metal, as iron, nickel, cobalt, ·etc., which may receive, by any means, the properties of the loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a magnetic meridian.

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