COLLY

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The black grime or soot of coal. [Obs.] Burton.

2.
v.

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.

3.
n.

A kind of dog. See Collie.


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