Crossword-Solution: LODESTONE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lodestone | n. | A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite. |
| Lodestone | n. | Same as Loadstone. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “LODESTONE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| PIece of magnetite | 1 answer |
| Natural magnet | 1 answer |
| Magnetite piece | 1 answer |
| It was used to make the first compass | 1 answer |
| Iron attractor | 1 answer |
| COMPASS forerunner | 2 answers |
| magnetic iron ore | 2 answers |
| It's quite attractive | 2 answers |
| THING that attracts (fig.) | 2 answers |
| Magnetic mineral | 2 answers |
| The force is with it | 2 answers |
| loadstone | 3 answers |
| Magnetite. | 5 answers |
| A MINERAL CONSISTING OF MAGNESIUM IRON SILICATE | 10 answers |
| attractor | 10 answers |
| iron ore | 11 answers |
| Magnet. | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with LODESTONE (5)
When he was out on a canvass, his name was a lodestone which drew the farmers to his stump from fifty miles around.
The lodestone and the compass; the frictional machine; the Leyden jar; the nature of conductors and insulators; the identity of electricity and the thunder-storm flash; the use of lightning-rods; the physiological effects of an electrical shock--these constituted the bulk of the bequest to which philosophers were the only heirs.
However this may be, we are told that Thales of Miletus attributed the attractive properties of the amber and the lodestone to a soul within them.
The Persian name for amber is KAHRUBA, attractor of straws, and that for lodestone AHANG-RUBA attractor of iron.
One of their experiments was to float a needle on a piece of cork, and make it follow a lodestone held in the hand.
Quotes with LODESTONE (1)
I have long been of the Opinion, says he, that the Fire was a vast Blessing and the Plague likewise; it gave us Occasion to understand the Secrets of Nature which otherwise might have overwhelm'd us. (I busied my self with the right Order of the Draughts, and said nothing.) With what Firmness of Mind, Sir Chris. went on, did the People see their City devoured, and I can still remember how after the Plague and the Fire the Chearfulnesse soon returned to them: Forgetfulnesse is…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1961–2020).