Crossword-Solution: CUDBEAR
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| Cudbear | n. | A powder of a violet red color, difficult to moisten with water, used for making violet or purple dye. It is prepared from certain species of lichen, especially Lecanora tartarea. |
| Cudbear | n. | A lichen (Lecanora tartarea), from which the powder is obtained. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with CUDBEAR (5)
About two teaspoonfuls of cudbear into about a quart of boiling water; let it simmer a few minutes before you put in the feathers.
Dip in acetate of alumina mordant, then in a boiling-hot decoction of Brazil-wood--and, last of all, pass through a bath of cudbear.
Take about a spoonful of cudbear, put it into a small pan, pour boiling water upon it; stir and let it stand a few minutes, then put in the silk, and turn it over in a short time, and when the colour is full enough, take it out; but if it should require more violet or crimson, add a spoonful or two of purple archil to some warm water; steep, and dry it within doors.
Specimens of varieties of the lichens used in the manufacture of cudbear, orchil and litmus, and of the substance obtained, were also shown in the British department, which were awarded prize medals.
Peculiar substances existing in these plants are, during this process, so changed by the combined action of the atmosphere, water, and ammonia, as to generate the coloring matter, which, when perfect, is pressed out, and gypsum, chalk, or other substances, are then added, so as to give it the desired consistency; these are then prepared for the market under the forms of cudbear or litmus.