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Found 1 definition: flour.

Pos: Noun, Verb (transitive)

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun flour has 1 senses

flour(n = noun.food) - fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain;
Derived form verb flour₁, verb flour₂, adjective floury₁

Verb flour has 2 senses

1. flour(v = verb.contact) - cover with flour; "flour fish or meat before frying it"
Derived form noun flour₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP

2. flour(v = verb.change) - convert grain into flour;
Derived form noun flour₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

flour, n. Array

The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard. [1913 Webster]

Flour bolt, in milling, a gauze-covered, revolving, cylindrical frame or reel, for sifting the flour from the refuse contained in the meal yielded by the stones. -- Flour box a tin box for scattering flour; a dredging box. -- Flour dredge or Flour dredger, a flour box. -- Flour dresser, a mashine for sorting and distributing flour according to grades of fineness. -- Flour mill, a mill for grinding and sifting flour.

flour, v. t.

1. To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat. [1913 Webster]

2. To sprinkle with flour. [1913 Webster]

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

flour, n. & v.
--n.
1 a meal or powder obtained by grinding and usu. sifting cereals, esp. wheat.
2 any fine powder.
--v.tr.
1 sprinkle with flour.
2 US grind into flour.

Derivative:
floury adj. (flourier, flouriest). flouriness n.

Etymology:
ME, different. spelling of FLOWER in the sense 'finest part'

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Pulverulence

N powderiness, pulverulence, sandiness, efflorescence, friability, powder, dust, sand, shingle, sawdust, grit, meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule, crumb, seed, grain, particle, limature, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs, magistery, fine powder, flocculi, smoke, cloud of dust, cloud of sand, cloud of smoke, puff of smoke, volume of smoke, sand storm, dust storm, pulverization, comminution, attenuation, granulation, disintegration, subaction, contusion, trituration, levigation, abrasion, detrition, multure, limitation, tripsis, filing, mill, arrastra, gristmill, grater, rasp, file, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, teeth, grinder, grindstone, kern, quern, koniology, powdery, pulverulent, granular, mealy, floury, farinaceous, branny, furfuraceous, flocculent, dusty, sandy, sabulous, psammous, arenose, arenarious, arenaceous, gritty, efflorescent, impalpable, lentiginous, lepidote, sabuline, sporaceous, sporous, pulverizable, friable, crumbly, shivery, pulverized, attrite, in pieces.