halid

See also: Halid

English

Etymology 1

Noun

halid (plural halids)

1. (zoology) Any spider in the now obsolete family Halidae, which since 2006 is considered part of the family Pisauridae.

Usage notes

For a list of the three species, see Halidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Noun

halid (plural halids)

1. (chemistry) Archaic form of halide.
   • 1906, Rudolph August Witthaus, The Medical Student's Manual of Chemistry, W. Wood & Company, page 352:

     These compounds,^{[the alkyl halids]} also known as halid anhydrids, are the halogen compounds of the acidyls.

   • 1911 October, Francis I. du Pont, “1,004,815. Liquid Gravity Separation of Solids”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, Volume 171, United States Patent Office, page 94:

     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.

   • 1917, William Conger Morgan, Qualitative Analysis as a Laboratory Basis for the Study of General Inorganic Chemistry, Macmillan, page 109:

     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.

Anagrams

• Hilda, hail'd, haldi

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English halide, serendipitously analysable as hâl (“salt”) +‎ -id.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈhalɪd/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈha(ː)lɪd/
• Rhymes: -alɪd

Noun

halid m (plural halidau, not mutable)

1. (inorganic chemistry) halide

Hyponyms

• bromid (“bromide”)
• clorid (“chloride”)
• fflworid (“fluoride”)

Related terms

• hâl (“salt (chemistry)”)