a. Obs. (See quot.) Hence Coltiness.
1683. J. Bobart, in Phil. Trans., XII. No. 165. 771. It may be doubted too, whether some of these trees thus liable to the fury of the Frost have not been Coltie?
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Coltie, among the timber merchants, a word used to express a tree which has a defect in some one of its annual circles, which renders it unfit for many of the uses it might have been otherwise fit for…. This coltiness might be the occasion of the mischief.
