light and brightness, collution

[Lat.collutus, pa. par. of colluo =to wash out.] a certain col lustration and conjunction of." - Plutarch: Morals, v. 237. Old Med.: A wash, a lotion. colmose *col-lu-vi-ēs, s. [Lat.] Filth, a mixed ma of refuse. ( Dunglison .) *col-lỹ (1), col-lōw, s . [Mid. Eng. col=coal; suff.-y.] The smut, grime, or soot of coal or burnt wood. opopanax."- Burton : On Melancholy. besmeared with soot colly, perfumed with col-lỹ (2), s. [COLLIE.] *col-lỹ, v . t . [COLLY (1), 8.] 1. Lit .: To besmear with soot or grime of coal; to begrime. "Thou hast not collied thy face enough." B. Jonson: Poetaster. 2. Fig .: To darken, to make black or dark. "Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heav'n and earth; And, ere a man hath pow'r to say, behold, The jaws of darkne do devour it up." Shakesp.: Mids. Night Dream, i. 1. *col-ly-bist, s. [Gr. kollybistēs , from kollybos = a small coin.) A money-changer. "See now how his eyes sparkle with holy anger, and dart forth beams of indignation, in the faces of these guilty collybists ; see how his hands deale strokes and ruin." Bp . Hall: Cont. Christ's Proce ion to the Temple. *col-ly-flow-er, s . [CAULIFLOWER.] matter as a principle of being.] col-ll, s. [Gr. kolla glue, and hyle = Chem.: The chemical principle in glue. *Col-lyr-id-1-ans, s. pl . [Gr. kollyridia =little cakes.] ... century, so denominated from the little cakes which Ch. Hist .: A sect toward the close of the fourth they offered to the Virgin Mary. The sect consisted gant devotion to the Virgin, met on a certain day chiefly of Arabian women, who, out of an extravaof the year to celebrate a solemn feast, and to render divine honors to her as to a godde , eating the cakes which they offered in her name. not native Arabs, but immigrants from Thrace and It is said that the members of this sect were Scythia. While pagans they had been accustomed to offer similar cakes to Venus or Astarte.