colly

Black as coal.

four colly birds

To make black, as with coal.

Thou hast not collied thy face enough, stinkard

Brief as the lighting in the collied night.

Soot.

besmeared with soot , colly

A blackbird

Alternative spelling of collie.

Can a Whig lick the feet o' the tyrant wha usurps oor Lord's throne, and accept o' ane indulgence frae him, hurled to him as a bane to a colly dog, binding himself to think as he thinks, and to preach as he wulls it; and to flatter tyranny in church and state, to win a paltry boon!

On the moors and mountains of Scotland the shepherd sends out his colly with the sheep, far out of his sight, conscious that when he sets out to look for them, they will be found herded safely together.