halid

1. (chemistry) Archaic form of halide.Examples: "These compounds,^([the alkyl halids]) also known as halid anhydrids, are the halogen compounds of the acidyls."; "The process of liquid separation of solids, which consists in separating the solids in a liquid which is the halid of a metal, whose halids are volatilizable, conveying the separated ingredients produced by the separation from the liquid and subjecting the same to a heat sufficient to volatilize, and adding to the liquid a halid of ammonia prior to said volatilization."; "All the mercury halids show a great tendency toward the formation of complex ions of this same type with the halids of other metallic elements."alt-ofarchaic