sb. or a. Obs. Also cole-. [? f. COLL sb.3 + OVERTHWART a. perverse; cf. collhardy.] ? Foolishly perverse; a perverse fool.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 101 b. And shall we beare with this colloverthwarte Osorius like a vice in a play, with a new founde chaungelyng, to make myngle mangle with the sacred worde of the Lord? Ibid., 190 b. Therfore this cavillyng coleoverthwart creepeth yet foreward.
