ELEC'TRIC, noun Any body or substance capable of exhibiting electricity by means of friction or otherwise, and of resisting the passage of it from one body to another. Hence an electric is called a non-conductor, an electric per se. Such are amber, glass, rosin, wax, gum-lac, sulphur, etc.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.