jelly

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  1. noun A soft, semisolid food substance with a resilient consistency, made by the setting of a liquid containing pectin or gelatin or by the addition of gelatin to a liquid, especially such a substance made of fruit juice containing pectin boiled with sugar.
  2. noun Something, such as a petroleum ointment, having the consistency of a soft, semisolid food substance.
  3. noun A shapeless, pulpy mass: The hero's laser zapped the monster, turning it to jelly.
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  • But Grandairs was too much for the jelly, as he had been for the fish-sauce, and Dr Slumpy in vain looked up, and sighed, and waited. —  Miss Mackenzie
  • Near Amphillis stood a dish of beef jelly, a chowet or liver-pie, a flampoynt or pork-pie, and a dish of sops in fennel. —  The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century
  • Next day remove the cake of fat on top; take out the jelly, avoid the settlings; and mix into it the beaten whites of the eggs with the shells. —  Favorite Dishes : a Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book
  • The soft soap made by this process seemed like a clean jelly, and showed no trace of the repulsive grease that helped to form it. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
  • In the dining-room she found supper laid out upon the table, cold beef, potatoes in their jackets, cold beetroot, jelly, and cheese, and her uncle playing cards on the unoccupied end of the table in a melancholy manner by himself. —  The Captives
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sauce ·  butter ·  pudding ·  juice ·  biscuit ·  syrup ·  strawberry ·  chocolate ·  marmalade ·  custard ·  broth ·  rice

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jelly:   jellies
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English gelee, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *gelāta, from Latin, feminine past participle of gelāre, to freeze; see gel- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly gelly; from Middle English gely, gele, from Old French gelee, a frost, also jelly, properly feminine of gele (from Latin gelatus), frozen, past participle of geler, from Latin gelare, freeze, congeal; see congeal, gelid, gelatin.
  2. Prob. a variant of jolly.
 

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