资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Colly \Col"ly\, n. [From {Coal}.]
   The black grime or soot of coal. [Obs.] --Burton.

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.

Colly \Col"ly\, n.
   A kind of dog. See {Collie}.

资料来源 : WordNet®

colly
     v : make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when
         you play outside!" [syn: {dirty}, {soil}, {begrime}, {grime},
          {bemire}] [ant: {clean}]
     [also: {collied}, {colliest}, {collier}]