Also 8 cut-. [A name devised from his own Christian name by Dr. Cuthbert Gordon (who obtained a patent for this powder).]

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  1.  A purple or violet powder, used for dyeing, prepared from various species of lichens, esp. Lecanora tartarea.

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1771.  Phil. Trans., LXI. 129. Dutch litmus, orchel, cudbear … dye silk and wool of a yellow colour.

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1794.  Statist. Acc. Scot., XII. 113. The cudbear manufacture carried on here was begun in 1777.

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1870.  J. W. Slater, Manual of Colours, 61. Cudbear is used for dyeing ruby and maroon shades, as well as a variety of browns.

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  2.  The lichen Lecanora tartarea.

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1766.  Ann. Reg., 117. Gathering Scotch Cutbear.

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1861.  H. Macmillan, Footnotes fr. Page Nature, 116. The most useful and best known of our native dye-lichens is the rock-moss or cudbear … (Lecanora tartarea).

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