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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

... rope denotes that this is heavy work. It is a grand sight! As the net nears the shore the gleaming, glittering mass of fish can be seen leaping and jumping in vain endeavour to escape from their prison, only the smaller fry succeeding. At last the net with its silver load reaches the shore with the noise as of a great wave breaking upon the beach, which is caused by the efforts of the fish to gain their freedom. The best fish are picked out and the others returned to the sea, while the gulls swoop down with ...

— Denmark • M. Pearson Thomson

... I can tell. There were Canons and Chapters and Priories and Brotherhoods and Sisterhoods and Ecclesiastical Hospitals and Priors' Almonries and Saints' Guilds without end. Never did I see a larger fry of holy men and women, professing to live only for the next world, but making the very best of this one while they were in it. A greasy, lazy, worthless Rabble-Rout they were, making their Religion ...

— The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 • George Augustus Sala

... history which Mr Wentworth himself had partly forgotten; and the troop of children at present in the Hall nursery were quite beyond the powers of any grown-up brother to recognise or identify. It was vaguely understood that "the girls" knew all the small fry by head and name, but even the Squire himself was apt to get puzzled. With such a household, and with an heir impending over his head like Jack, it may be supposed that Mr Wentworth's anxiety to get his younger boys disposed ...

— The Perpetual Curate • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant

... nature. In consequence of a petition by the lord-mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of London, a bill was brought in, and passed into a law without opposition, for the more effectual preservation and improvement of the fry and spawn of fish in the river Thames, and waters of Medway, and for the better regulating the fishery in those rivers. The two next measures taken for the benefit of the public were, first, a bill to render more effectual the several laws then in being, for the ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

... And then—the splash of your fish as you hook him! How magnified is the sound in the dim twilight, when you cannot see, but can only hear and feel your quarry! And what satisfaction to know that that great "logger-headed" two-pounder, that was devouring goodness knows how many yearlings and fry daily, is safe out of the water ...

— A Cotswold Village • J. Arthur Gibbs

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