jelly

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
jelly/ˈʤeli/

▶noun (pl. jellies)

• 1 chiefly Brit. a semi-solid dessert consisting of a sweet, fruit-flavoured liquid set with gelatin.

  ■ a small sweet made with gelatin.

• 2 a similar preparation made with fruit or other ingredients as a condiment.

  ■ a savoury preparation made from gelatin and meat stock.

• 3 any substance of a semi-solid consistency similar to jelly.

• 4 Brit. informal a tablet of the drug Temazepam.

• 5 Brit. informal term for gelignite.

▶verb (jellies, jellying, jellied) (usu. as adj. jellied) set (food) as or in a jelly.

– derivatives
jellification noun,
jellify verb (jellifies, jellifying, jellified).

– origin ME: from OFr. gelee ‘frost, jelly’, from L. gelata ‘frozen’.