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What does cudbear mean?

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Noun
  1. A violet-red powder, difficult to moisten with water, prepared from certain lichens, especially Lecanora tartarea, and used for making violet or purple dye.
  2. A lichen (Lecanora tartarea), from which the powder is obtained.
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If the colour is not good, tincture of red sanders or cudbear is directed to be added.
The above deep red feathers are passed through a bath of cudbear.
To dye one chip bonnet peach colour, put four ounces of cudbear in one gallon of water, make it boil, and put one ounce of soda in the liquor.
Commonest of such crottles was Lecanora tartarea, better known as Cudbear.
About 130 tons of cudbear are imported annually from Sweden.
Dye with equal quantities of cudbear and Logwood, the wool having been mordanted with chrome.

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