Colly

Col´ly

n.	1.	The black grime or soot of coal.
	2.	To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime. [imp. & p. p. Collied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Collying.] Thou hast not collied thy face enough. - B. Jonson. Brief as the lighting in the collied night. - Shak.
	1.	A kind of dog. See Collie.

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colly - make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" begrime, bemire, dirty, grime, soil alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" foul - make unclean; "foul the water" contaminate, pollute, foul - make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" smear - stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance slime - cover or stain with slime; "The snake slimed his victim" muddy, muddy up - dirty with mud splash - soil or stain with a splashed liquid mud, muck up, muck, mire - soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden" crock - soil with or as with crock blemish, spot - mar or impair with a flaw; "her face was blemished"