lodestone
lohd stohn
- n a permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically
- As his aides assert, however, Blair's religious beliefs make him a natural interlocutor for an American President for whom "moral clarity" is the lodestone of policy.
- Familiar to almost every schoolboy is the Arabian Nights tale of the deadly lodestone island which drew the iron nails and bolts from passing ships, causing them to be wrecked on .
- The rush for mercury in Arkansas last week was paralleled by a rush into Canada's Great Bear Lake region for radium, the modern transmuter's lodestone.