| 单词 | magnes stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmagnes stone a. A magnet, a lodestone. Also magnes stone. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > magnetism > magnetic devices or materials > [noun] > a magnet or loadstone adamant1345 stone1390 magnesa1398 shipman's stonec1400 loderc1460 lode1509 lodestone?1518 siderite1589 sail-stone1595 pebble1856 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 196v Þough magnas drawe yren to itself, þe adamas draweþ it away fro þe magnas. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 202 Þis stone magnes is hote and drye in þe þridde gre. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvi lxii. 573 There ben mountaynes of suche magnes stones and they drawe to them and breke shippes that ben nayled with yren. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 161 Thys is a merveilous nedle, whiche beinge touched, (as I heare) onlye with the Magnes shoulde knowe to turne alwaye to the North pole. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. iv. sig. Q1v As a perfect Magnes, though put in an iuorie boxe, will thorow the boxe send forth his imbraced vertue to a beloued needle. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. vii. sig. Mm3 As if the sight of the enimie had bene a Magnes stone to his courage. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. sig. Z7 An hideous Rock..Of mightie Magnes stone..Nigh..drawes All passengers, that none from it can shift. 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes ii. 1487 There is neither Iron or Steele, or the Magnes Stone that should so make the Tombe of Mahomet to hang in the Ayre. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. iv. 329 In this lower World there seems many things directed to the special use of Mankind..the Metals of Silver, Gold, Copper, the very Situation of the Seas, the Magnes. 1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 206 . < as lemmas |
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