| 单词 | quick iron |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquick iron ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [noun] > spinel group AB2 O4 > magnetite quick irona1398 magnet1440 lodestone?1518 magnetes1579 osmund stone1613 magnetite1851 Heraclean stone1883 titanomagnetite1895 coulsonite1937 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 202 Magnes..draweþ to it self Iren, so þat it makeþ as it were a chyne of Iren rynges..in þe commune speche þis Iren, it is ycleped quik Iren [L. ferrum viuum]. a1500 in J. Evans & M. S. Serjeantson Eng. Mediaeval Lapidaries (1933) 100 (MED) It makeþ as it were a scheyne of yerne with ryngis, as Ised seyþe; þerfor in þe comen speche þis yerne is clepid quyk yerne. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 515 The ignorant people seeing these rings thus rubbed with the load-stone,..call it quick-yron. 1860 J. Timbs Stories of Inventors & Discoverers 22 References are made to it [sc. a magnet]..by Pliny, who states that ignorant persons call it..quick iron, a name somewhat analogous to our loadstone. < as lemmas |
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