v. U.S. colloq. [Back-formation from JELLY sb.] intr. To become a jelly; to congeal or jelly.
1830–40. [Remembered by F. Hall].
1874. Louisa M. Alcott, Little Women Wedded, v. She reboiled, resugared, and restrained, but that dreadful stuff wouldn’t jell.
1879. E. P. Roe, in Scribner’s Mag., XIX. 823/1. One of the gravest questions in the domestic economy,—whether the jelly will ‘jell.’
