coll
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3ADJ.
all
VERB + COLL
kiss
COLL + NOUN
'ee
Definitions
verb
To hug or embrace.
So hauing ſayd, her twixt her armes twaine / Shee ſtreightly ſtraynd, and colled tenderly
"As how, my lambkin," blushing, she replide, / "Because I in this dancing schoole abide? / If that it be, that breede's this discontent, / We will remoue the camp incontinent: / For shelter onelie, sweete heart, came I hither, / And to auoide the troblous stormie weather; / But now the coaste is cleare, we will be gonne, / Since, but thy self, true louer I haue none." / With that she sprung full lightlie to my lips / And fast about the neck me colle's, and clips ...
name
A medieval English short form of the male given name Nicholas; very rare today.
A surname originating as a patronymic.
An island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland.
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3So hauing ſayd, her twixt her armes twaine / Shee ſtreightly ſtraynd, and colled tenderly
Wiktionary"As how, my lambkin," blushing, she replide, / "Because I in this dancing schoole abide? / If that it be, that breede's this discontent, / We will remoue the camp incontinent: / For shelter onelie, sw
Wiktionary'You couldn't expect her to throw her arms round 'ee, an' to kiss and to coll 'ee all at once.'
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