To dress by heating or roasting with fat in a pan over a fire; cook and prepare for eating in a frying-pan: as, to fry meat or vegetables.Figuratively, to vex; agitate.To heat; parch; render torrid.To be subjected to heat in a pan containing fat over a fire; hence, to suffer a frying effect from great heat; simmer as if in bubbling fat.To ferment, as in the stomach, or, figuratively, in the mind; undergo a seething process.To be agitated; boil.n. That which is fried; a dish of anything fried.n. A state of mental ferment or agitation: as, he keeps himself in a constant fry.n. Seed; offspring: especially with reference to human beings.n. A swarm, as of children or any small animals, now specifically of little fishes; a number of small or insignificant objects: often used in contempt.n. In particular The young of the salmon or of trout at a certain stage of their development.n. A kind of sieve.n. A drain.n. Any small edible fishes, as those of the family Engraulidæ, the anchovies, and certain fishes of the family Clupeidæ, as the sardines, and of the family Atherinidæ.n. The roe of fishes, especially that of such fishes as are used for food.