1A translucent gelatinous mass found on the ground, vegetation, etc., once popularly supposed to result from the fall of meteors but now generally identified as colonies of the cyanobacteria Nostoc; = star jelly. Formerly also attributive in "†star-shot jelly". Now historical and rare.

2A type of shot, the pieces of which consist of (typically) four iron bars fastened at one end to a circular link.