(frī) v.t. & v.i. fried, fry·ing
1. To cook or be cooked in hot fat, usually over direct heat.
2. Obs. To vex; worry; be agitated.
—noun plural fries
1. A dish of anything fried.
2. A social occasion, usually a picnic, at which foods are fried and eaten: a fish fry.
3. The viscera or testes of an animal fried and served for the table: calf's fry (pluck), pig's fry (liver), lamb's fries (testes]. [<F frier <L frigere]

(frī) noun plural fry
1. Very young fish.
2. The young of other animals, especially when spawned or littered in large numbers.
3. Small adult fish.
4. A multitude or quantity of persons or objects of little importance. [<ON friō seed]

(frī), Christopher,
born 1907, English dramatist.