COLLIED

COLLY

dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire

(verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty; β€œdon’t soil your clothes when you play outside!”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

collied

simple past tense and past participle of colly

Anagrams

• Cedillo, codille, collide

Source: Wiktionary


Col"lied, p. & a.

Definition: Darkened. See Colly, v. t.

COLLY

Col"ly, n. Etym: [From Coal.]

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

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

Definition: 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.

Col"ly, n.

Definition: A kind of dog. See Collie.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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