gelly

English

Noun

gelly (countable and uncountable, plural gellies)

1. Obsolete form of jelly.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Their watchet mantles frindgd with siluer round , They softly wipt away the gelly blood

References

• “gelly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Middle English

Noun

gelly

1. Alternative form of gele