Loadstone
['ləʊdstəʊn] or ['lod,ston]
Definition
(n.) Alt. of Lodestone
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Magnet, natural magnet.
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Definition
Same as Lodestone.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a loadstone, denotes you will make favorable opportunities for your own advancement in a material way. For a young woman to think a loadstone is attracting her, is an omen of happy changes in her family.
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Examples
- But the greatest curiosity, upon which the fate of the island depends, is a loadstone of a prodigious size, in shape resembling a weaver's shuttle. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He directs the experimenter, for example, to take a piece of loadstone of convenient size and turn it o n a lathe to the form of a ball. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The Loadstone Rock was drawing him, and he must sail on, until he struck. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- By means of this loadstone, the island is made to rise and fall, and move from one place to another. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- This loadstone is under the care of certain astronomers, who, from time to time, give it such positions as the monarch directs. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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