cudbear

• cudbeard

Corrupted from the name of Dr. Cuthbert Gordon, a Scotsman, who patented the process of manufacture.

cudbear (countable and uncountable, plural cudbears)

1. (historical) A violet-red dye powder, prepared from certain lichens, especially Ochrolechia tartarea.
   • 1878, Andrew Ure, Robert Hunt, Frederick William Rudler, Ure̓'s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition of Their Principles and Practice, volume 3:

     ORCHELLA WEEDS. The cylindrical and flat species of Roccella used in the manufacture of Orchil or Archil, and Cudbear, are so called by the makers.

2. A rim lichen, crabseye lichen (Ochrolechia tartarea.

• (lichen): cudweed

• “cudbear”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “cudbear”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “cudbear”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Lecanora tartarea at MycoBank

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