fry

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To cook over direct heat in hot oil or fat.
• intransitive verb Slang To destroy (electronic circuitry) with excessive heat or current.
• intransitive verb To be cooked in a pan over direct heat in hot oil or fat.
• intransitive verb Slang To undergo execution in an electric chair.
• noun A french fry.
• noun A dish of a fried food.
• noun A social gathering at which food is fried and eaten.
• noun A recently hatched fish.
• noun A young salmon living in fresh water that is older than an alevin and younger than a parr or smolt.
• noun A young animal of certain other groups, such as frogs.
• noun An individual, especially a young or insignificant person.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun That which is fried; a dish of anything fried.
• noun A state of mental ferment or agitation: as, he keeps himself in a constant fry.
• 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.
• noun Seed; offspring: especially with reference to human beings.
• noun 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.
• noun In particular The young of the salmon or of trout at a certain stage of their development.
• noun A kind of sieve.
• noun A drain.
• noun 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.
• noun The roe of fishes, especially that of such fishes as are used for food.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb 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
• intransitive verb 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.
• intransitive verb obsolete To simmer; to boil.
• intransitive verb To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat.
• intransitive verb obsolete To be agitated; to be greatly moved.
• noun (Zoöl.) The young of any fish.
• noun A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general.
• noun A dish of anything fried.
• noun colloq. A state of excitement.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
• noun Young fish; fishlings.
• noun archaic A swarm, especially of something small (a fry of children).
• noun The spawn of frogs.
• verb transitive To cook (something) in hot fat.
• verb intransitive To cook in hot fat.
• verb intransitive, colloquial To suffer because of too much heat.
• verb intransitive, informal To be executed by the electric chair.
• verb transitive, informal To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
• noun (mainly Canada and US) A fried potato.
• noun Ireland, UK A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
• noun colloquial, archaic A state of excitement.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb be excessively hot
• verb kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair