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fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.

The process denoted by the verb fry. Frying pan, an iron pan with a long handle, used for frying meat. vegetables, etc.

A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.

Any absurd medley; a hotchpotch. The Mahometan religion, which, being a gallimaufry made up of many, partakes much of the Jewish. South.

Pelf; also, figuratively, rubbish; trash. [Obs.] Cranmer.

The office or jurisdiction of sheriff. See Shrievalty.

Undershrievalty. [Obs.]

Young fish; fry.

bread crumbs) used for covering bits of meat, small birds, or fish, strung on skewers for frying.

Pertaining to, or used in, papal bulls. Fry. Bullantic letters, Gothic letters used in papal bulls.

To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil. [Obs.] A short-legged hen daintily carbonadoed. Bean. & Fl.

A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir. [Obs.] Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell. Spenser. What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land. Thomson.

oof construction. -- Deck floor (Arch.), a floor which serves also as a roof, as of a belfry or balcony. -- Deck hand, a sailor hired to help on the vessel's deck, but not expected to go aloft. -- Deck molding (Arch.), the molded finish of the edge of a deck, making the junction with the lower slope of the roof. --…

Efficacy. [R.] J. Fryth.

imp. & p. p. of Fry.

A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters.

hard intellectual labor; -- usually with out. Who was hammering out a penny dialogue. Jeffry.

advantages in buying and selling; to haggle. A person accustomed to higgle about taps. Jeffry. To truck and higgle for a private good. Emerson.

An insipient person. [R.] Fryth.

set to shed rainwater outward in openings which are to be left otherwise unfilled; as belfry windows, the openings of a louver, etc. -- Louver work, slatted work.