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Fry   /fraɪ/   Listen
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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



... it is very salt, pour boiling water on it, and let it soak a while; then fry it with a small piece of lard; when done, dish it; mix together flour, milk, parsley and pepper, let it boil, and pour it over ...
— Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers • Elizabeth E. Lea

... point gained, the Church's authority to dress as a man. Oh, yes, wave on wave the good luck came sweeping in. Never mind about the smaller waves, let us come to the largest one of all, the wave that swept us small fry quite off our feet and almost drowned us with joy. The day of the great verdict, couriers had been despatched to the King with it, and the next morning bright and early the clear notes of a bugle came floating to us on the crisp air, and we pricked up our ears and began ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... tired as well as hungry. Maria set the dish of beefsteak in the oven to get hot, and Matilda made the coffee. She knew quite well how to do that. Then she came to the table where Maria was preparing the potatoes to fry. Maria's knife was going chop, chop, ...
— What She Could • Susan Warner

... tried the experiment of hatching and turning out 250,000 of the small fry of the Atlantic salmon from one of their hatcheries; and, should success attend the effort, a great attraction would be added to the inland streams; but a period of some few years must naturally elapse before any opinion can be given as to the ...
— Fishing in British Columbia - With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina • Thomas Wilson Lambert

... asleep, I lay there tossing over my hard bed, and wondering what I would do next. All at once, the sweetest peace and rest came over me, and I sank into such a good sleep. Next morning, I was planning that I would make the tinfull of meal into mush, and fry it in a greasy frying-pan, in which our last meat had been fried. As I opened the door to go down to the brook to wash, I saw something new. There, on the bench, beside the door, stood two wooden pails and a sack. One pail was full of meat, the other full of potatoes, and the sack filled ...
— The Wonders of Prayer - A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer • Various


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