[f. JELLY sb.]
1. intr. To come to the consistence of jelly; to ‘set’ as jelly; to congeal, solidify, coagulate.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 354. It will neuer jellie and grow to any thicke consistence in summer, unlesse there be wax put into it.
1750. E. Smith, Compl. Housew. (ed. 14), 201. You may know by selling some in a spoon to try if it will jelly.
1770. Hewson, in Phil. Trans., LX. 376. The blood … very soon jellies or coagulates.
1822–34. Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), IV. 308. The secreted fluid … commonly … jellies upon exposure to heat.
2. trans. To convert into jelly; to cause to ‘set’ or coagulate; to reduce to the consistence of jelly.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 334. A live Wolfe sodden in oile untill the said oile be gellied to the height or consistence of a cerot.
1770. Hewson, in Phil. Trans., LX. 374. In a few minutes the whole will be jellied or coagulated.
1876. G. Macdonald, in Macm. Mag., XXXIV. 351. They, jellied with fear, have uttered no challenge.
Hence Jellying vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1673. Marvell, Appleton Ho. The jellying stream compacts below.
a. 1697. Aubrey, Nat. Hist. Surrey (1719), II. 194. The Jellying of some Parts of the Earth in Aqua Fortis.
1871. Napheys, Prev. & Cure Dis., I. ii. 75. The jellying of fruits.
