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Webster 1913 Edition


Magnetic

Mag-net′ic

,
Noun.
1.
A magnet.
[Obs.]
As the
magnetic
hardest iron draws.
Milton.
2.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Magnetic

MAGNET'IC