n.
 (pl. jellies)
     - chiefly Brit. a semi-solid dessert consisting of a sweet, fruit-flavoured liquid set with gelatin. 
▸a small sweet made with gelatin.
 - a similar preparation made with fruit or other ingredients as a condiment. 
▸a savoury preparation made from gelatin and meat stock.
 - any substance of a semi-solid consistency similar to jelly.
 - Brit. informal a tablet of the drug Temazepam.
 - Brit. informal term for gelignite.
 
v.
 (jellies, jellying, jellied)
 
[
usu. as adj. jellied]
 set (food) as or in a jelly.
 
  Derivative
  
  Etymology
  ME: from OFr. gelee ‘frost, jelly’, from L. gelata ‘frozen’.