Elixir

a word of Arabic origin, appiied by the alchemists to a number of solutions employed in attempting the transmutation of metals into gold, and also to a potion, the elixir of life, supposed to confer immortality. It is still used for various popular remedies, for the most part composed of various aromatic and stimulative substances held in solution by alcohol.. Elizabeth, a city and county-seat of Union co., N. J. It was settled as Elizabeth town in 1665, and was the capital of New Jersey from 1755 to 1757. It contains an old tavern where Washington eg on his way to New York for his first inauguration.