Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
any of various compounds of silicon with a more electropositive element or radical;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Silicide \Sil"i*cide\, n. (Chem.)
A binary compound of silicon, or one regarded as binary. [R.]
[1913 Webster]
Hydrogen silicide (Chem.), a colorless, spontaneously
inflammable gas, SiH4, produced artifically from
silicon, and analogous to methane; -- called also
silico-methane, silicon hydride, and formerly
siliciureted hydrogen.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
silicide
n 1: any of various compounds of silicon with a more
electropositive element or radical