colly Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make soiled, filthy, or dirty
    begrime; soil; grime; bemire; dirty.
    • don't soil your clothes when you play outside!

WordNet

Col"ly noun
Etymology
From Coal.
Definitions
  1. The black grime or soot of coal. Obs. Burton.
Col"ly transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Collied ; present participle & verbal noun Collying
Definitions
  1. 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 noun
Definitions
  1. A kind of dog. See Collie.

Webster 1913