collied, ppl. a. arch. and dial.
(ˈkɒlɪd)
[f. colly v. or n. + -ed.]
Rendered ‘colly’; begrimed; blackened; darkened, murky.
| [c 1310 See kollede s.v. collow v.] |
| 1590 Shakes. Mids. N. i. i. 145 Briefe as the lightning in the collied night. 1634 T. Carew Cœl. Brit. Wks. (1824) 159 [Venus] stroaking with her ivory hand his [Vulcan's] collied cheeks. 1693 Southerne Maid's Last Prayer i. i, That youthful Virgin..with..a shining face, and colly'd eyebrows. 1707 E. Ward Hud. Rediv. (1715) ii. vii, With brimless Cap and colly'd Face. 1828 Blackw. Mag. XXIII. 120. 1855 Singleton Virgil I. 128 A collied cloud. |