Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Sesquisulphide

Sesquisulphide , noun

[Sesqui- + sulphide.]

(Chemistry) A sulphide, analogous to a sesquioxide, containing three atoms of sulphur to two of the other ingredient; -- formerly called also sesquisulphuret; as, orpiment, As2S3 is arsenic sesquisulphide.