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The juice of fruits or meats boiled with sugar to an elastic consistence; as, currant jelly; calf's-foot jelly. 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 specios…

Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa.

To place in jelly. [R.]

A medusa, or jellyfish.

A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusæ or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.

Belonging to or resembling the Acalephæ or jellyfishes.

A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora.

A savory meat jelly containing portions of fowl, game, fish, hard boiled eggs, etc. Thackeray.

A genus of jellyfishes. See Discophora.

A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.

The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee. Calf's-foot jelly, jelly made from the feet of calves. The gelatinous matter of the feet is extracted by boiling, and is flavored with sugar, essences, etc.

A species of jellyfish; sea blubber. Sir T. Herbert.

ind of light pastry, usually in the form of a small round cake, and with a filling, as of jelly or cream.

Resembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors.

A smokeless powder composed of nitroglycerin, guncotton, and mineral jelly, and used by the British army and in other services. In making it the ingredients are mixed into a paste with the addition of acetone and pressed out into cords (of various diameters) resembling brown twine, which are dried and cut to length. A…

er consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly.

A strong broth of meat, strained and made clear for invalids; also, a savory jelly. [Obs.] When I am exellent at caudles And cullises . . . you shall be welcome to me. Beau. & Fl.

A division of acalephs or jellyfishes, including most of the large disklike species. -- Dis*coph"o*rous, a.

A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.

Capable of being congealed; capable of being converted into jelly.