Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
colie .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any bird of the genus Colius and allied genera. They inhabit Africa.
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- noun Any
bird of either of thegenera Colius orUrocolius , endemic tosub-Saharan Africa .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Visiting foreign coly banned, and nearly all of the country's locally-based journalists reporting for foreign media have been deported or driven out of the country.
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Very often, when the coly-mackerel and the mackerel are met by a south wind in their exit, there are better catches to the southward than in the neighbourhood of Byzantium.
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The coly-mackerel is caught more frequently on entering than on quitting the Euxine.
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The coly-mackerel as a rule does not enter the Euxine, but passes the summer in the Propontis, where it spawns, and winters in the Aegean.
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The purpose of the meeting i IFP to avoid being exposed that they had in fact imposed this IFn unwilling community, and had coly not bothered to consult the local community leaders whom they re not
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The purpose of the meeting i IFP to avoid being exposed that they had in fact imposed this IFn unwilling community, and had coly not bothered to consult the local community leaders whom they re not
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And mela {n} coly is heuy/full of care & heuynes/whereof he engendereth moche euyll blode that causeth great sekenes, which bringeth him vnto dethe.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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