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gelly en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable) Obsolete spelling of jelly.
    alt of jelly
    • Their watchet mantles frindgd with siluer round , They softly wipt away the gelly blood 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
    • In July, currant, raspberry, and gooseberry gelly and jam are made. 1836 [1834], Ganavya Doraiswamy, The Family Magazine; Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge ..., Volumes 3-4, Redfield & Lindsay, page 359:
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable, uncountable) Clipping of gelignite.
    alt of gelignite

Forms

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gellies Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

jelly