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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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MAGNETO-ELECTRICITY n. 2 definitions

Electricity evolved by the action of magnets.

MAGNETOGRAPH n.

ring, by photography or otherwise, the states and variations of any of the terrestrial magnetic elements.

MAGNETOMETER n.

An instrument for measuring the intensity of magnetic forces; also, less frequently, an instrument for determining any of the terrestrial magnetic elements, as the dip and declination.

MAGNETOMETRIC a.

Pertaining to, or employed in, the measurement of magnetic forces; obtained by means of a magnetometer; as, magnetometric instruments; magnetometric measurements.

MAGNETOMOTIVE a.

Pertaining to, or designating, a force producing magnetic flux, analogous to electromotive force, and equal to the magnetic flux multiplied by the magnetic reluctance.

MAGNETOMOTOR n.

quantity of electricity of low tension, and hence adapted to the exhibition of electro-magnetic phenomena. [R.]

MAGNETOTHERAPY n.

The treatment of disease by the application of magnets to the surface of the body.

MARIONETTE n. 2 definitions

A puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show.

MARTINET n. 2 definitions

In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods. [Hence, the word is commonly employed in a depreciatory sense.]

A species of tinamou (Calopezus elegans), having a long slender crest.

The principles or practices of a martinet; rigid adherence to discipline, etc.

Of or pertaining to metagenesis.

grance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb. Mignonette pepper, coarse pepper.

A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.

The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.

MINIONETTE a. 2 definitions

Small; delicate. [Obs.] "His minionette face." Walpole.

Of or pertaining to money, or consisting of money; pecuniary. "The monetary relations of Europe." E. Everett. Monetary unit, the standard of a national currency, as the dollar in the United States, the pound in England, the franc in France, the mark in Germany.

A month. [Obs.] Chaucer.

MONETIZATION n.

The act or process of converting into money, or of adopting as money; as, the monetization of silver.