MAG'NET, noun [Latin from Gr. Magnesia, in Asia Minor.] The lodestone; an ore of iron which has the peculiar properties of attracting metallic iron, of pointing to the poles, and of dipping or inclining downwards. These properties it communicates to iron by contact. A bar of iron to which these properties are imparted, is called an artificial magnet
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.