Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Colly \Col"ly\, n. [From {Coal}.]
The black grime or soot of coal. [Obs.] --Burton.
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.]
Thou hast not collied thy face enough. --B. Jonson.
Brief as the lighting in the collied night. --Shak.
Colly \Col"ly\, n.
A kind of dog. See {Collie}.
Source : WordNet®
colly
v : make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when
you play outside!" [syn: {dirty}, {soil}, {begrime}, {grime},
{bemire}] [ant: {clean}]
[also: {collied}, {colliest}, {collier}]