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Found 1 definition: jelly.

Pos: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun jelly has 3 senses

1. jelly(n = noun.food) gelatin - an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods;
is a kind of dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat
has particulars: calf's-foot jelly, gelatin dessert, aspic
Derived forms verb jellify₂, verb jellify₁

2. jelly(n = noun.food) - a preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit;
is a kind of conserve, conserves, preserve, preserves
has particulars: apple jelly, grape jelly
Derived forms verb jellify₂, verb jellify₁

3. jelly(n = noun.substance) - any substance having the consistency of jelly or gelatin;
is a kind of substance
has particulars: mineral jelly, petrolatum, petroleum jelly
Derived forms verb jellify₂, verb jellify₁, verb jelly₁

Verb jelly has 1 senses

jelly(v = verb.change) jellify - make into jelly; "jellify a liquid"
is one way to change integrity
Derived form noun jelly₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

jelly, n. [ Formerly gelly, gely, F. gelée jelly, frost, fr. geler to freeze. L. gelare; akin to gelu frost. See Gelid.].

1. Anything brought to a gelatinous condition; a viscous, translucent substance in a condition between liquid and solid; a stiffened solution of gelatin, gum, or the like. [1913 Webster]

2. The juice of fruits or meats boiled with sugar to an elastic consistence; as, currant jelly; calf's-foot jelly. [1913 Webster]

Jelly bag, a bag through which the material for jelly is strained. -- Jelly mold, a mold for forming jelly in ornamental shapes. -- Jelly plant (Bot.), Australian name of an edible seaweed (Eucheuma speciosum), from which an excellent jelly is made. J. Smith. -- Jelly powder, an explosive, composed of nitroglycerin and collodion cotton; -- so called from its resemblance to calf's-foot jelly.

jelly, v. i.

To become jelly; to come to the state or consistency of jelly. [1913 Webster]

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

jelly, n. & v.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 a a soft stiffish semi-transparent preparation of boiled sugar and fruit-juice or milk etc., often cooled in a mould and eaten as a dessert. b a similar preparation of fruit-juice etc. for use as a jam or a condiment (redcurrant jelly). c a similar preparation derived from meat, bones, etc., and gelatin (marrowbone jelly).
2 any substance of a similar consistency.
3 Brit. sl. gelignite (cf. GELLY).
--v. (-ies, -ied)
1 intr. & tr. set or cause to set as a jelly, congeal.
2 tr. set (food) in a jelly (jellied eels).

Idiom:
jelly baby Brit. a jelly-like sweet in the stylized shape of a baby. jelly bag a bag for straining juice for jelly. jelly bean a jelly-like sweet in the shape of a bean.

Derivative:
jelly-like adj.

Etymology:
ME f. OF gelee frost, jelly, f. Rmc gelata f. L gelare freeze f. gelu frost

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Semiliquidity

N semiliquidity, stickiness, viscidity, viscosity, gummosity, glutinosity, mucosity, spissitude, crassitude, lentor, adhesiveness, inspissation, incrassation, thickening, jelly, mucilage, gelatin, gluten, carlock, fish glue, ichthyocol, ichthycolla, isinglass, mucus, phlegm, goo, pituite, lava, glair, starch, gluten, albumen, milk, cream, protein, treacle, gum, size, glue (tenacity), wax, beeswax, emulsion, soup, squash, mud, slush, slime, ooze, moisture, marsh, semifluid, semiliquid, tremellose, half melted, half frozen, milky, muddy, lacteal, lactean, lacteous, lactescent, lactiferous, emulsive, curdled, thick, succulent, uliginous, gelatinous, albuminous, mucilaginous, glutinous, glutenous, gelatin, mastic, amylaceous, ropy, clammy, clotted, viscid, viscous, sticky, tacky, gooey, slab, slabby, lentous, pituitous, mucid, muculent, mucous, gummy.