Obs. Also 7 sulley. [f. SULLY v.] An act of sullying, soiling or polluting (lit. and fig.); a stain, blemish.
1602. Shaks., Ham., II. i. 39. You laying these slight sulleyes on my Sonne, As ’twere a thing a little soil’d i’ th’ working.
1683. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., Printing, xxiv. ¶ 19. The Gold or Silver will stick to the least Sully that the Varnish may chance to make.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 256, ¶ 4. These little Spots and Sullies in its Reputation.
1742. Fielding, J. Andrews, I. iv. Without the least sully of their virtue.
1762. Franklin, Lett., etc. Wks. 1840, V. 393. After the explosion, I could find neither any moisture nor any sully from the ink.
