0 (a piece of) rock that contains a lot of iron and can therefore be used as a magnet (= an object that pulls metal objects towards it) --
Naturally magnetized pieces of magnetite, called lodestone, will attract small pieces of iron, and this was how ancient people first noticed the property of magnetism.
When he was out on a canvass, his name was a lodestone which drew the farmers to his stump from fifty miles around.
The male "magnes" attracted iron, and was the iron ore we now know as lodestone or magnetite, and which probably gave us the term magnet.
With a more efficient compass magnetized by lodestone, the thermoremanence compass fell out of use.
The lodestone and the amber must be alive, and if that were so, there could be no difference between the living and the dead.
Thales did address the topic, approaching it through lodestone and amber, which, when electrified by rubbing together, also attracts.
It was a good lodestone around which the song could revolve.
The liner notes state that the album is dedicated to the lodestone.
