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cudbear
cudbear (ˈkʌdbɛə(r)) Also 8 cut-. [A name devised from his own Christian name by Dr. Cuthbert Gordon (who obtained a patent for this powder).] 1. A purple or violet powder, used for dyeing, prepared from various species of lichens, esp. Lecanora tartarea.1771 Phil. Trans. LXI. 129 Dutch litmus, orch...
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Dye-producing lichen
The purple from lichens was an important commercial product and came in a variety of forms, for example, orchil and cudbear.
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crotal
▪ I. crotal1 (ˈkrəʊtəl) [ad. L. crotalum, or its F. adaptation crotale: see below.] 1. = crotalum 1.1850 J. Leitch Müller's Anc. Art §388 note, A female Bacchante clattering with crotals. 2. Irish Antiq. Applied to a small globular or pear-shaped bell or rattle, the nature and use of which are obscu...
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University Technical College Leeds
hub in the north of Hunslet, with Leeds City College's Printworks Campus using the former Alf Cooke printworks building, Leeds College of Building's Cudbear
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archil
archil (ˈɑːtʃɪl, ˈɑːkɪl) Forms: 6 archall, 7 -al, 8 -el, arcel(l, 8–9 archil. [a corruption of the more correct orchil, in 15th c. orchell, a. OF. orchel, orcheil (late orseil), ad. It. orcello, earlier oricello, or OSp. orchillo. In mod.L. roccella, mod.Sp. archilla, F. orseille. Origin uncertain: ...
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Orcein
Commercial archil is either a powder (called cudbear) or a paste. It is red in acidic pH and blue in alkaline pH. Cudbear
Cudbear is a dye extracted from orchil lichens that produces colours in the purple range.
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erythric
erythric, a. Chem. (ɛˈrɪθrɪk) [f. Gr. ἐρυθρ-ός red + -ic.] erythric acid: † a. (see quot. 1840); b. = erythrin.1840 Henry Elem. Chem. II. 415 An acid has also been obtained by Brugnatelli, by acting on uric acid with nitric acid, which he has proposed to call erythric acid. 1861 Macmillan Footn. Pag...
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Traditional dyes of the Scottish Highlands
Claret
Claret – "corcar" – the cudbear lichen, Ochrolechia tartarea, scraped off rocks and steeped in urine for three months, then taken out, made into
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cork
▪ I. cork, n.1 (kɔːk) [Cf. Sp. corcha, corche in same sense; but 15th c. corke, with 16th c. Du. kork, kurk, Ger. kork, appears to represent OSp. alcorque ‘a corke shooe, a pantofle’ (Minsheu), in which sense corke is cited in 1463 (sense 2); cf. also Ger. korke slipper (1595 in Grimm), and the earl...
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History of Hunslet
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Albert Tool Works - Donisthorpe Street
Yorkshire Steel Foundry - Black Bull Street
Victoria Chemical Works - Clarence Road
Providence Works - Cudbear Street
Saw Mills - Cudbear Street
Iron Works - Crown Point Road
Union Foundry (Iron) - Brookefield Street
Airedale Works - Albury Road
Globe Mills
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cup-moss
ˈcup-moss a. A lichen, Scyphophorus pyxidatus or Cladonia pyxidata, having cup-shaped processes arising from the thallus. b. Locally applied to the cudbear, Lecanora tartarea, from its cup-shaped fructification.1597 Gerarde Herbal iii. clvii. 1371 Muscus Pyxidatos, which I have englished Cup Mosse, ...
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Red coat (military uniform)
military woollen cloth lists: 1 lb of cochineal, 3 lbs madder, 6 lbs argol (potassium tartrate), 3 lbs alum, 4 pints tin liquor (stannous chloride), 6 lbs cudbear The cloth was added and boiled for two hours; after that, the cloth was drained and immersed in cudbear and urine for another two hours.
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red sanders
red sanders Also 7 saunder, 8–9 saunders. [See sanders.] Red sandalwood or rubywood; the wood of an East Indian tree, Pterocarpus santalinus, used in dyeing, and formerly employed in medicine as an astringent and tonic.1553 Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 23 There are also in this Iland many woddes tha...
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Ethnolichenology
Many of the traditional dyes of the Scottish Highlands were made from lichens including red dyes from the cudbear lichen, Lecanora tartarea, the common The same dye was also produced from Ochrolechia spp. lichens in Britain and was called cudbear.
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Lichen
These compounds are very useful for lichen identification, and have had economic importance as dyes such as cudbear or primitive antibiotics.
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