Thou hast not collied thy face enough. --B. Jonson.
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Brief as the lighting in the collied night. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Collying — Her. Falconer s term used by *heralds to indicate the head of a bird erect in preparation for flight … Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases
Collied — Colly 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.] [1913 Webster] Thou hast not collied thy face enough. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] Brief as the lighting… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Colly — 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.] [1913 Webster] Thou hast not collied thy face enough. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] Brief as the lighting in the … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
colly — transitive verb (collied; collying) Etymology: alteration of Middle English colwen, from Old English *colgian, from Old English col coal Date: 1590 dialect chiefly British to blacken with or as if with soot … New Collegiate Dictionary
colly — /kol ee/, v., collied, collying, n. Brit. Dial. v.t. 1. to blacken as with coal dust; begrime. n. 2. grime; soot. [1555 65; var. of collow (v.), ME colwen, deriv. of OE col COAL; see Y1] * * * … Universalium
