Col"ly (?), n. [From Coal.]

The black grime or soot of coal.

[Obs.]

Burton.

 

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Col"ly, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Collying.]

To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime.

[Archaic.]

Thou hast not collied thy face enough. B. Jonson.

Brief as the lighting in the collied night. Shak.

 

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Col"ly (?), n.

A kind of dog. See Collie.

 

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