ppl. a. arch. and dial. [f. COLLY v. or sb. + -ED.] Rendered ‘colly’; begrimed; blackened; darkened, murky.
[c. 1310. See kollede, s.v. COLLOW v.]
1590. Shaks., Mids. N., I. i. 145. Briefe as the lightning in the collied night.
1634. T. Carew, Cælum Brit., 8. It is the prettiest spectacle to see her [Venus] stroaking with her Ivory hand his [Vulcan’s] collied cheekes, and with her sinowy fingers combing his sooty beard.
1693. Southerne, Maid’s last Prayer, I. i. 3. That Youthful Virgin of five and forty, with a swelling Rump, bow Leggs, a shining Face, and colly’d Eyebrows.
1707. E. Ward, Hudibras Rediv. (1715), II. vii. With brimless Cap and colly’d Face.
1828. Blackw. Mag., XXIII. 120. The lightnings suddenly intersecting the collied night.
1855. Singleton, Virgil, I. 128. A collied cloud.
