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Fry   /fraɪ/   Listen
verb
Fry  v. t.  (past & past part. fried; pres. part. frying)  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.


Fry  v. i.  
1.
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.
2.
To simmer; to boil. (Obs.) "With crackling flames a caldron fries." "The frothy billows fry."
3.
To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat. "To keep the oil from frying in the stomach."
4.
To be agitated; to be greatly moved. (Obs.) "What kindling motions in their breasts do fry."


noun
Fry  n.  
1.
A dish of anything fried.
2.
A state of excitement; as, to be in a fry. (Colloq.)


Fry  n.  
1.
(Zool.) The young of any fish.
2.
A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general. "The fry of children young." "To sever... the good fish from the other fry." "We have burned two frigates, and a hundred and twenty small fry."





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"Fry" Quotes from Famous Books



... of it all. A distant whistle of a locomotive dispels the idea that all the world is wilderness. The firefly lamps glow along the margin of the rushes. The frogs are now in full chorus, the great bulls beating their tom-toms and the small fry filling in the chinks with shriller cries. How remote the scene and how ...
— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe
... hijosdalgo, as they say in Spain; men of large lives, splendor and leisure, scorning trade; mighty huntsmen before the Lord. Of the Greeks, only the Spartans were sportsmen; but where the Spartans hunted foxes and such-like small fry, The Persians followed your true dangerous wild-fowl: lions, leopards, and tigers. A great satrap could buy up Greece almost at any time; could put the Greeks to war amongst themselves, and finance his favorite side out of his own ...
— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris
... collops of veal Veal olives Ragout of a breast of veal Fricando of veal To make a pie of sweetbreads and oysters Mock turtle of calf's head To grill a calf's head To collar a calf's head Calf's heart, a nice dish Calf's feet fricassee To fry calf's feet To prepare rennet To hash a calf's head To bake a calf's head To stuff and roast calf's liver To broil calf's liver Directions for cleaning calf's ...
— The Virginia Housewife • Mary Randolph
... limits, patterns of glide, and Bannister's absolute conviction that nothing would let go. The bitter part was that it let go just short of where Lynds might have made it. He was through the bad part of it, the primary and secondary decelerations, the stretches where you think if you don't fry from the heat, the ship will melt apart under you, and the buffeting in the upper levels when ionospheric resistance really starts to take hold. And believe me, the buffeting that you know about, when you approach Mach 1 in an after-burnered machine, is a piece of cake to the buffeting at ...
— What Need of Man? • Harold Calin
... old sailor had an addition to his work in the shape of fish to fry, and Carey seized the opportunity the examination of the fish afforded to whisper to ...
— King o' the Beach - A Tropic Tale • George Manville Fenn


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