Colly

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make foul or dirty; grime, as with the smut of coal; blacken.
  • noun. The black grime or soot of coal or burned wood.
  • noun. See collie.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A kind of dog. See collie.
  • transitive verb. To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime.
  • noun. The black grime or soot of coal.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. black as coal
  • verb. to make black, as with coal
  • noun. Soot.
  • noun. A blackbird
  • noun. Alternative spelling of collie.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make soiled, filthy, or dirty
  • Word Usage
    ""colly" birds, colly referring to soot or coal black."
    Form
    collied  collying  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ali  Bali  Bengali  Cali  Dali  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    begrime  
    variant
    verb-form