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Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame. Thomson. Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide. Tennyson.

Any fish of the family Silurid or of the order Siluroidei.

A compound of tellurium with a more positive element or radical; -- formerly called telluret.

ion of an acid and a base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound. [R.] Berzelius.

A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California.

Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.

A lead-gray sectile mineral. It is a telluride of silver.

Formed by hydrogen and tellurium; as, hydrotelluric acid, or hydrogen telluride.

etallic luster, generally of a foliated massive structure; foliated tellurium. It is a telluride of lead and gold.

A telluride of silver and gold, related to hessite.

A mineral, a telluride of gold and silver, of a steel-gray, silver-white, or brass-yellow color. It often occurs in implanted crystals resembling written characters, and hence is called graphic tellurium. [Written also silvanite.]

A telluride. [Obsoles.]

llurized. [Written also telluretted.] [Obsoles.] Tellureted hydrogen (Chem.), hydrogen telluride, H2Te, a gaseous substance analogous to hydrogen sulphide; -- called also tellurhydric acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen telluride, which is regarded as an acid, especially when in solution.

A telluride of bismuth. It is of a pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, and usually occurs in foliated masses. Calles also telluric bismuth.