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Fries

noun

1.

Strips of potato fried in deep fat. Synonyms: chips, french-fried potatoes, french fries.

Fry

noun

1.

English painter and art critic (1866-1934). Synonyms: Roger Eliot Fry, Roger Fry.

2.

English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907). Synonym: Christopher Fry.

3.

A young person of either sex. Synonyms: child, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster. "They're just kids" , "'tiddler' is a British term for youngster"

verb

(past & past part. fried; pres. part. frying)

1.

Be excessively hot.

2.

Cook on a hot surface using fat.

3.

Kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair. Synonym: electrocute.

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"Fries" Quotes from Famous Books

... excursion exceedingly; and on their return it was decided to repeat it the next year, if not before. The club-house on Turtle Head was finished when the fleet arrived at Belfast; and during the rest of the vacation, the yachts remained in the bay. They had chowders and fries at the Head, to which the ladies were invited; and Donald made himself as agreeable as possible to Miss Nellie on these occasions. Possibly her father and mother had some objections to this continued and increasing intimacy; if they had, they did not mention them. They were compelled to acknowledge, ...

— The Yacht Club - or The Young Boat-Builder • Oliver Optic

... cooking. All foods prepared in this way are difficult to digest, because they become more or less hard and soaked with fat. Chops and thin cuts of meat, which are intended to be pan-broiled, are really sauted if they are allowed to cook in the fat that fries out ...

— Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1 - Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads • Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

... earth's vivifying soil, The fruitful elements of life increas'd, As in a mother's womb; and in a while Assum'd a certain shape. So when the floods Of seven-mouth'd Nile desert the moisten'd fields, And to their ancient channels bring their streams, The soft mud fries beneath the scorching sun; And midst the fresh-turn'd earth unnumber'd forms The tiller finds: some scarcely half conceiv'd; Imperfect some, their bodies wanting limbs: And oft he beings sees with parts alive, The rest a clod of earth: for where with heat Due moisture ...

— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid

... to endure. Educated white men have inherited an infinite capacity for feeling bored; and a hot climate, which fries us all over a slow fire, grills boredom into irritability. The study of oriental human nature requires endless patience; and this is the hardest virtue for a young, energetic white man, with the irritable brain of his race, to acquire. Without it ...

— In Court and Kampong - Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula • Hugh Clifford

... principal dishes; many a knight keepes a worse Table: first, a brave Generall Carbonadoed[165], then a fat Bishop broyl'd, whose Rochet[166] comes in fryed for the second course, according to the old saying, A plumpe greazie Prelate fries a fagot daintily. ...

— Old English Plays, Vol. I - A Collection of Old English Plays • Various

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