Cudbears is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 450 anagrams from letters in cudbears (abcdersu).
First recorded in 1760-70; coinage by Dr. Cuthbert Gordon, 18th-century Scottish chemist, based on his own name
Various species of Lecanora, particularly L. tartarea, known as cudbear, are used in dyeing woollen yarn.
Instead of logwood a little madder is sometimes used; also cudbear or Barwood.
The lichens thus treated acquire gradually a deep purple colour, and form the products called "cudbear."
About 130 tons of cudbear are imported annually from Sweden.
The manufacture of Archil and cudbear from the various lichens is simple in principle.
If the red color of the wool is due to archil or cudbear, it is extracted by hydrochloric acid, which is colored red.
A mordant of alum, followed by a hot bath of brazil wood, and afterwards by a weak one of cudbear.
The above deep red feathers are passed through a bath of cudbear.
Dye with equal quantities of cudbear and Logwood, the wool having been mordanted with chrome.
If the colour is not good, tincture of red sanders or cudbear is directed to be added.