colliedadj.
/ˈkɒlɪd/ archaic and dialect.1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. i. 145 Briefe, as the lightning in the collied night. View more context for this quotation1634 T. Carew Cœlum Britanicum 8 [Venus] stroaking with her Ivory hand his [Vulcan's] collied cheekes.1693 T. Southerne Maids Last Prayer i. i That youthful Virgin..with..a shining face, and colly'd eyebrows.1707 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II. vii. 11 With brimless Cap and colly'd Face.1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 23 120. 1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 128 A collied cloud.
Rendered ‘colly’; begrimed; blackened; darkened, murky.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > grimy
smotryc1407
grimed1483
smuggy?1518
collied1600
grimy1612
bruckled1648
smutty1650
besmutted1829
engrained1843
begrimed1865
the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > making or becoming black > [adjective] > blackened
forswartedc1305
bletchy1520
blackeneda1522
well-blacked1592
collied1600
blackeda1643
c1310 K. Horn (Ritson) 1088 His kollede snoute.]
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adj.1600