Obs. [f. col, COAL + FOX = coal-fox, as in cole-tit, etc. So Ger. kohlfuchs, kohlenfuchs (Grimm), Du. koolvos (Kilian).]
The BRANT-FOX, a variety of the fox, distinguished by a greater admixture of black in its fur.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Nun’s Pr. T., 395. A Colfox ful of sly Iniquitee. [So 2 MSS; Harl. has cole-fox, others col, kolle, kole fox. Cf. ibid. 84 And tipped was his tayle and both his eeris With blak vnlyk the remenant of his heeris.]
