Southernized form of STANE-RAW.
1802. Scott, Minstrelsy, II. 215. The usual dress of the fairies is green; though on the moors, they have been sometimes observed in heath-brown, or in weeds dyed with the stoneraw, or lichen.
1853. G. Johnston, Bot. E. Bord., 265. Parmelia saxatilis.… Stoneraw: Staney-rag. It is employed … in dyeing stockings and nightcaps of a dirty orange-brown colour.
