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Webster 1913 Edition

(jĕl′ly̆)

Noun.

Jelly.

[Obs.]

Spenser.

Noun.

[L. gelo, gelatus. It is now more generally written jelly.]

The inspissated juice of fruit boiled with sugar.

A viscous or glutinous substance; a gluey substance, soft, but cohesive. [See Jelly.]

gelly ‎(countable and uncountable, plural gellies)

Obsolete form of jelly.
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