jellied

1. 1
   adjective

   Turned into jelly, or thickened and set like jelly; congealed.

   After a night in the cold, the leftover stock was firm and jellied.

   The weapon sprayed jellied fuel that clung to every surface as it burned.

   Similarcongealed, gelled, set, gelatinous

   Oppositeliquid

2. 2
   adjective

   Prepared by being cooked in jelly.

   Street vendors sold jellied eels by the cup along the riverfront.

   The holiday table held a jellied chicken loaf that wobbled whenever anyone bumped it.

3. 3
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of jelly.

   Her grandmother jellied the pigs' feet and stored them in the cellar.

   The tongue had been jellied and pressed into a mold the day before.

   Note

   The y of jelly turns to ie before -ed, as in carried and buried, and one spelling serves as past and participle: she jellied the stock; the tongue had been jellied. The verb's two meanings, turning something into jelly and setting food in it to keep, reappear in the adjectives for things congealed like jelly and dishes cooked in jelly.

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