v. Obs. Also coly, colly. [a. OF. colei-er, coloier, collier to turn the neck, f. col, cou neck (Rom. type collicare): cf. manier to handle.] intr. To turn the neck, turn the head from side to side: said of birds.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, II. lxxxiv. (1869), 106. While the brid goth coleyinge [colliant], hider and thider turnynge the nekke.
1486. Bk. St. Albans, A vj b. Yowre hawke colyeth and not beckyth.
1678. Phillips, Collieth, a term in Faulconry.
1715. in Kersey s.v. Colly. Hence in Bailey.
