Fritter

[Fr. friture, anything fried; It fri tell a, a pancake, from Lat. frigere, frictum, to fry.] A kind of small pancake fried; a small piece of meat fried; any small piece cut to be fried. - A fragment; a shred; a small piece; a shiver; as, to break into shivers and fritters. -v. a. To cut meat into small pieces to be fried. - To break into small pieces or fragments; to diminish; to take away, or waste by degrees; as, to fritter away anything. Fritz'town, in Pennsylvania, a post-village of Berks co., abt. 9 m. W.S.W. of Reading. Friuli, (free-oo'le.) [Ger. Friaul ; anc. Forum Julii.] Formerly the name of a district in the extreme N.E. of Italy. It constituted one of the 36 duchies into which the Longobards divided the north of Italy. From an early period, F. was divided into Tyrolese and Venetian F. , the former of which came into the po e ion of the Emperor Maximilian in 1500, while the latter remained attached to Venice till the peace of Campo-Formio (1797), when it was given to Austria. The inhabitants, called Furlani , are for the most part Italian, but make use of a peculiar dialect.