Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FRY, n. [Fr. frai, from the verb.]

1. A swarm or crowd of little fish; so called from their crowding, tumbling and agitation. [So Sp. hervir, to swarm or be crowded, from L. ferveo, and vulgarly boiling is used for a crowd.] Milton.
2. A dish of any thing fried.
3. A kind of sieve. [Not used in America.] Mortimer.