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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[LL.

azoch

azoth

, fr. Ar.

az-zauq

mercury.]

(Alchemy)

(a)

The first principle of metals, i. e., mercury, which was formerly supposed to exist in all metals, and to be extractable from them.

(b)

The universal remedy of Paracelsus.

Noun.

Among alchimists, the first principle of metals; the mercury of metals; a universal medicine. obs.

The liquor of sublimated quicksilver; brass.

azoth ‎(uncountable)

(alchemy) The first principle of metals, that is, mercury, which was formerly supposed to exist in all metals, and to be extractable from them.
The universal remedy of Paracelsus.