Chem. [f. AMIDE + -IDE.] A simple compound of amidogen with another element or complex radical.
1854. Pereira, Mat. Med. (ed. 4), I. 436. The amidide of hydrogen (ammonia) combines with the hydracids to form the hydrsalts.
1869. Eng. Mech., 19 March, 581/3. It was proposed … to regard the two molecules … as an amidide of ammonium NH4, NH2.
