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fry

FRY, v.t. [L. frigo. Gr.]

To dress with fat by heating or roasting in a pan over a fire; to cook and prepare for eating in a fryingpan; as, to fry meat or vegetables.

FRY, v.i.

1. To be heated and agitated; to suffer the action of fire or extreme heat.

2. To ferment, as in the stomach.

3. To be agitated; to boil.

FRY, n.

1. A swarm or crowd of little fish; so called from their crowding, tumbling and agitation. [L. ferveo.]

2. A dish of any thing fried.

3. A kind of sieve. [Not used in America.]


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FRY, v.t. [L. frigo. Gr.]

To dress with fat by heating or roasting in a pan over a fire; to cook and prepare for eating in a fryingpan; as, to fry meat or vegetables.

FRY, v.i.

1. To be heated and agitated; to suffer the action of fire or extreme heat.

2. To ferment, as in the stomach.

3. To be agitated; to boil.

FRY, n.

1. A swarm or crowd of little fish; so called from their crowding, tumbling and agitation. [L. ferveo.]

2. A dish of any thing fried.

3. A kind of sieve. [Not used in America.]

FRY, n. [Fr. frai, from the verb.]

  1. A swarm or crowd of little fish; so called from their crowding, tumbling and agitation. [So Sp. hervir, to swarm or be crowded, from L. ferveo, and vulgarly boiling is used for a crowd.] Milton.
  2. A dish of any thing fried.
  3. A kind of sieve. [Not used in America.] Mortimer.

FRY, v.i.

  1. To be heated and agitated; to suffer the action of fire or extreme heat.
  2. To ferment, as in the stomach. Bacon.
  3. To be agitated; to boil. Dryden.

FRY, v.t. [L. frigo; Gr. φρυγω; Sp. freir; It. friggere; Port. frigir; Fr. frire; Ir. friochtalaim. The sense is nearly the same as in boil, or broil, to agitate, to fret.]

To dress with fat by heating or roasting in a pan over a fire; to cook and prepare for eating in a fryingpan; as, to fry meat or vegetables.


Fry
  1. To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.
  2. To undergo the process of frying; to be subject to the action of heat in a frying pan, or on a griddle, or in a kettle of hot fat.
  3. A dish of anything fried.
  4. The young of any fish.
  5. To simmer; to boil.

    [Obs.]

    With crackling flames a caldron fries. Dryden

    The frothy billows fry. Spenser.

  6. A state of excitement; as, to be in a fry.

    [Colloq.]
  7. A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general.

    The fry of children young. Spenser.

    To sever . . . the good fish from the other fry. Milton.

    We have burned two frigates, and a hundred and twenty small fry. Walpole.

  8. To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat.

    To keep the oil from frying in the stomach. Bacon.

  9. To be agitated; to be greatly moved.

    [Obs.]

    What kindling motions in their breasts do fry. Fairfax.

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Fry

FRY, verb transitive [Latin frigo. Gr.]

To dress with fat by heating or roasting in a pan over a fire; to cook and prepare for eating in a fryingpan; as, to fry meat or vegetables.

FRY, verb intransitive

1. To be heated and agitated; to suffer the action of fire or extreme heat.

2. To ferment, as in the stomach.

3. To be agitated; to boil.

FRY, noun

1. A swarm or crowd of little fish; so called from their crowding, tumbling and agitation. [Latin ferveo.]

2. A dish of any thing fried.

3. A kind of sieve. [Not used in America.]

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