'Brief as the lightning in the collied night.'—Midsummer Night's Dream.
'Thou hast not collied thy face enough.'—Jonson's Poetaster.
Colley-maker. A saddler. See Colley (1).—N. & S.W.
Colley-strawker. A milker or 'cow-stroker.'—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Colt's-tail. A kind of cloud said to portend rain.—N.W.
'The colt's tail is a cloud with a bushy appearance like a ragged fringe, and portends rain.'—Great Estate, ch. viii.
*Comb, Coom. (1) n. The lower ledge of a window (Kennett's Paroch. Antiq.). (2) n. Grease from an axle-box, soot, dirt, &c. Koomb (S.).—S.W.
Comb-and-Brush. Dipsacus sylvestris, L., Wild Teasel.—S.W.
Combe, Coombe. (1) The wooded side of a hill (D.); used occasionally in this sense in both Wilts and Dorset.—N. & S.W. (2) A narrow valley or hollow in a hillside. This is the proper meaning.—N. & S.W. Used of a narrow valley in the woodlands in Gamekeeper at Home, ch. i.
Come of. To get the better of, to grow out of. 'How weak that child is about the knees, Sally!' 'Oh, he'll come o' that all right, Miss, as he do grow bigger.'—N. & S.W.