FRICASSEE, a dish or mess hastily dressed in a frying-pan, and seasoned with butter, oil, or the like. The word is French, formed of the Latin fixatura, "frying." Others will have fricassée formed in imitation of the noise made by butter, or other fat, when melted in the pan. We say a fricassée of pullets, of rabbits, of tench, of tripe, of frogs, of eggs, of peas, &c.