halid

noun

1. Any spider in the now obsolete family Halidae, which since 2006 is considered part of the family Pisauridae.
2. (alt-of, archaic)Archaic form of halide.

   “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.”