Word Meanings - JELLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
jelly, frost, fr. geler to freeze. L. gelare; akin to gelu frost. See 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. 2.
Additional info about word: JELLY
jelly, frost, fr. geler to freeze. L. gelare; akin to gelu frost. See 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. 2. 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 , Australian name of an edible seaweed , 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.
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- FROSTED
Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass. Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work. Knight. - SOLIDARE
A small piece of money. Shak. - STIFFENER
One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat. - CONDITIONALITY
The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms. - GELATINATION
The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly. - GELATINIZATION
See GELATINATION - SOLIDUNGULA
A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ. - STIFFENING
1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship. - CONDITIONAL
Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . . - LIQUIDATION
The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated. To go into liquidation , to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness be authoritatively ascertained, and that the - FROSTILY
In a frosty manner. - FROST-BITTEN
Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing. - FROSTING
1. A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc. 2. A lusterless finish of metal or glass; the process of producing such a finish. - ANYTHINGARIAN
One who holds to no particular creed or dogma. - SOLIDUNGULATE
See SOLIPED - FROSTWORK
The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone. - FROSTFISH
The tomcod; -- so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about the commencement of frost. See Tomcod. The smelt. A name applied in New Zealand to the scabbard fish valued as a food fish. - SOLIDATE
To make solid or firm. Cowley. - FROSTLESS
Free from frost; as, a frostless winter. - LIQUIDIZE
To render liquid. - MONSEL'S SOLUTION
An aqueous solution of Monsel's salt, having valuable styptic properties. - NONSOLUTION
Failure of solution or explanation. - UNLIQUIDATED
Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled. Unliquidated damages , penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill. - UNFREEZE
To thaw. - CONSOLIDATED
Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787) - RESOLUTIONER
One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century. He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner. Sir W. Scott. - CONSOLIDATION
To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation. (more info) 1. The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the - SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
The substance of the medullary sheath.