FRIES

Noun

fries

plural of fry

(culinary, chiefly, North America) Ellipsis of french fries. [from 1973]

Verb

fries

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fry

Anagrams

• Fiser, fiers, fires, serif

Etymology

Proper noun

Fries

A surname.

A town in Virginia.

Anagrams

• Fiser, fiers, fires, serif

Source: Wiktionary


FRY

Fry, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fried; p. pr. & vb. n. Frying.] Etym: [OE. frien, F. frire, fr. L. frigere to roast, parch, fry, cf. Gr. bhrajj. Cf. Fritter.]

Definition: 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. Dryden The frothy billows fry. Spenser.

3. To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat. To keep the oil from frying in the stomach. Bacon.

4. To be agitated; to be greatly moved. [Obs.] What kindling motions in their breasts do fry. Fairfax.

Fry, n.

1. A dish of anything fried.

2. A state of excitement; as, to be in a fry. [Colloq.]

Fry, n. Etym: [OE. fri, fry, seed, descendants, cf. OF. froye spawning, spawn of. fishes, little fishes, fr. L. fricare tosub (see Friction), but cf. also Icel. fræ, frjo, seed, Sw. & Dan. frö, Goth. fraiw seed, descendants.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Definition: 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. Spenser. To sever . . . the good fish from the other fry. Milton. We have burned two frigates, and a hundred and twenty small fry. Walpole.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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