flour(n = noun.food) Array - fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain; Array
is a kind of food product, foodstuff
has particulars: plain flour, wheat flour, soy flour, soybean flour, soybean meal, semolina
Derived forms verb flour₂, verb flour₁, adjective floury₁

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

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

   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]

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

2.  To sprinkle with flour. [1913 Webster]

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'

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.

corn flour, flour beetle, flour bin, flour corn, flour mill, flour weevil, graham flour, mediterranean flour moth, pea flour, plain flour, red-dog flour, self-raising flour, self-rising flour, soy flour, soybean flour, wheat flour, whole meal flour, whole wheat flour