Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The lichen Roccella tinctoria. Same as
archil , 2.
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Wool is dyed black with a mixture of gall-berry leaves and sumac berries; for red they use a moss which they find growing on the rocks, and which may be the lichen _Roccella tinctoria_ or dyer's-moss; also madder root, and sassafras bark.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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