Bible Dictionaries
Magnetic

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(a.) Alt. of Magnetical

(2):

(n.) A magnet.

(3):

(n.) 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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Magnetic'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/magnetic.html. 1828.