Noah Webster
Fry
FRY, verb transitive [Latin frigo. Gr.]
To dress with fat by heating or roasting in a pan over a fire; to cook and prepare for eating in a fryingpan; as, to fry meat or vegetables.
FRY, verb intransitive
1. To be heated and agitated; to suffer the action of fire or extreme heat.
2. To ferment, as in the stomach.
3. To be agitated; to boil.
FRY, noun
1. A swarm or crowd of little fish; so called from their crowding, tumbling and agitation. [Latin ferveo.]
2. A dish of any thing fried.
3. A kind of sieve. [Not used in America.]