Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Collying"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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