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† panˈtarbe Obs.
[a. OF. pantarbe (Cotgr. 1611), ad. Gr. παντάρβη some kind of precious stone.]
A precious stone fabled to act as a magnet to gold: the stone of the sun.
1587T. Underdown Heliodorus' æthiop. Hist. 54 The stoane is a Pantarbe, of secrete vertue. 1647Trapp Comm. 1 Pet. ii. 4 And precious. Far beyond that most orient and excellent stone Pantarbe, celebrated by Philostratus. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. xliii. 201 That Carbuncle alone would have darken'd the Pantharb of Joachas the Indian Magician. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Pantarbe,..an imaginary stone, the virtues of which were similar to those of the magnet; but exerted upon gold as those of the loadstone upon iron. |