jelly

noun (plural jellies)

• 1 [mass noun] chiefly British a fruit-flavoured dessert made by warming and then cooling a liquid containing gelatin or a similar setting agent in a mould or dish so that it sets into a semi-solid, somewhat elastic mass: [as modifier]:a jelly mould
• a substance with a jelly-like consistency made with fruit or other ingredients as a condiment:roast pheasant with redcurrant jelly
• a savoury preparation with a jelly-like consistency made by boiling meat and bones.
• any jelly-like substance:petroleum jelly

• 2a small sweet made with gelatin: a box of fruit jellies
• British informal a tablet of the drug Temazepam.

• 3US term for jam².

• 4British informal gelignite.

• 5 (jellies) jelly shoes.

verb (jellies, jellying, jellied)

• set (food) as or in a jelly:jellied cranberry sauce jellied eels