资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Azoth \Az"oth\, n. [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.