Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete spelling of jelly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Jelly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Obsolete form of jelly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate

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Examples

  • So, yes, the teenage 90210 fan in me is crossing her fingers, hoping Green stumbles onto Wisteria Lane so I can start scribbling “Kate + Keith” with gelly roll pens in my Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper.

    Brian Austin Green on 'Desperate Housewives' makes us desperately happy | EW.com 2010

  • Called Instant Gel, their proposal also makes use of existing water-borne organism and pollutants but this time they are to be used to set off a chemical reaction with layers of flexible gelly structures, creating fantastical island-sized foamy water lilies.

    Some Proposals for a Venice Lagoon Park 2008

  • Ever have one of those little gelly alien finger puppets?

    OMFG! INDIANA JONES SPOILERS! :-O 2007

  • May 27, 2009 at 3:57 am ooo ai lurves teh sparklee gelly pens!

    I hope to God - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Called Instant Gel, their proposal also makes use of existing water-borne organism and pollutants but this time they are to be used to set off a chemical reaction with layers of flexible gelly structures, creating fantastical island-sized foamy water lilies.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • Those gelly bracelets can leave marks like that if you sleep with them on and if you have your inner arm on a table or something.

    Demi Lovato Denies Joe Jonas Dating Rumors 2008

  • December 19, 2007 at 3:24 pm necks EEster, wii kin shares teh black gelly-beens!

    NOPE– - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

  • I write my drafts with pens--usually those really excellent Japanese gelly roll pens, which lay down a satisfyingly slug-like trail of gleaming ink--in little books, little so that your 1500 words or whatever the daily amount is covers 4 or 5 pages and makes you feel productive.

    Thoughts on (hand)writing Jenny Davidson 2006

  • I used to go through pots and pots of gel a week, and once I demonstrated a headstand to my class in PE and left a very watery, gelly mark on the PE mat, which everyone noticed.

    To be 9 again. onlyemma 2006

  • Helm 9 almost certainly laid the gelly, and Nogo probably led the men who hit our camp last night.

    The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995

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