ppl. a. Also 4 i-friȝet. [pa. pple. of FRY v.] Cooked by frying.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. VII. 298. Bote hit weore Fresch Flesch · or elles Fisch I-Friȝet.
c. 1460. J. Russell, Bk. Nurture, 500. Off Fryed metes be ware, for þey ar Fumose in dede.
1598. Epulario, H j b. Cut it on both sides like a fried fish.
1771. Goldsm., Haunch of Venison. At the top a fried liver and bacon was seen.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. xii. 86. Roast mutton and fried potatos were our incessant fare, for which, after a little longing for a change at first, we contracted a final and permanent love.
fig. 1624. Capt. Smith, Virginia, VI. 208. For Affrica, had not the industrious Portugals ranged her vnknowne parts, who would have sought for wealth amongst those fried Regions of blacke brutish Negars, where notwithstanding all their wealth and admirable aduentures and endeuours more then one hundred and fortie yeeres, they know not one third part of those black habitations.
