▪ I. cullis, n.1 Now rare.
(ˈkʌlɪs)
Forms: 5 colys, kolys, culys, colysshe, 5–6 colice, 5–7 coleys(e, culice, 6 colesse, collesse, -yse, culleis, -ace, -ys, -cooliz, 6–7 cullice, -ess(e, 6–8 cullise, 7 collice, cullisse, -ies, -asse, -aze, culisse, coolisse, coollis, 6– cullis.
[a. OF. coleïs (13th c., later couleïs, coulis), subst. use of coleïs:—L. type *cōlātīcius, f. cōlāre to strain, flow through, glide, etc.]
A strong broth, made of meat, fowl, etc., boiled and strained; used especially as a nourishing food for sick persons. ‘Beef-tea’ is a well-known form.
| c 1420 Liber Cocorum 20 For a kolys þe brawne take of sothun henne or chekyne [etc.]. c 1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 824 Colice of pike, shrympus or perche. 1543 Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. ix. 228 If the pacient be weake..ye shall gyve hym the coleys of a yonge capon. 1584 Lyly Campaspe iii. v, He that melteth in a consumption is to be recured by colices, not conceits. 1662 H. Stubbe Ind. Nectar vii. 165 The meat, out of which all the strength is Boil'd or Pressed in Jellies and Cullices. 1796 H. Glasse Cookery Pref. 1 Use for a cullis, a leg of veal and a ham. 1853 A. Soyer Pantroph. 76 Take onions..thicken with cullis, oil, and wine. |
† b. transf. and fig. (In quot. 1719 app. = a sound beating; cf. quot. 1625 and cullis v.).
| 1580 Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 356 Expecting thy Letter eyther as a Cullise to preserue, or as a sworde to destroy. 1608 Middleton Fam. Love iii. ii, Get a cullis to your capacity, a restorative to your reason. a 1625 Fletcher Nice Valour iii. i, He has beat me e'en to a Cullis. 1719 D'Urfey Pills II. 112 A Cullise for the Back too. |
▪ II. cullis, n.2 Arch.
(ˈkʌlɪs)
Also killis, killesse.
[a. F. coulisse furrow, groove, gutter, etc., subst. use of fem. of coulis adj.: see prec. and coulisse.]
A gutter, groove, or channel. Also attrib., as cullis roof (see quot. 1875).
| 1838 Britton Dict. Archit. 216 Cullis, a gutter in a roof; a groove or channel. 1849 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. X. i. 178 Placed in a barn or ricked in some exposed part with cullis roof, where it will keep dry. 1875 Parker Concise Gloss. Archit., Killesse, also Cullis, Coulisse (Fr.), a gutter, groove, or channel..This term is in some districts corruptly applied to a hipped roof by country carpenters, who speak of a killessed or cullidged roof. A dormer window is also sometimes called a killesse or cullidge window. |
¶See also killesse, -ese.
▪ III. † ˈcullis, v. Obs. rare.
[f. cullis n.1 (b).]
trans. To ‘beat to a jelly’, beat severely.
| 1632 Chapman & Shirley Ball iv. ii, Quit thy father..or Ile cullice thee With a battoun. |