Sc. Variant of GEILL, jelly.
a. 1774. Fergusson, Election, Poems (1845), 40. There whang his creams and jeels Wi’ life that day.
18[?]. Song, Jenny’s Bawbee (Jam. Suppl.), His suit he press’d sae weel, That Jenny’s heart grew saft as jeel.
So Jeel v. Sc. intr. [F. geler], to set as jelly, to congeal, to ‘jell.’
1896. ‘Ian Maclaren,’ Kate Carnegie, 204. Setting saucers of black jam upon the window-sill to ‘jeel.’
