About The Word Flour
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Flour
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What's The Definition Of Flour?
[n] fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain
[v] convert grain into flour [v] cover with flour, as of fish or meat, in cooking Synonyms | Synonyms for Flour: Related Terms | Find terms related to Flour: abrade | air pollution | alabaster | atomize | attritus | beat | besprinkle | bran | bray | bread | brecciate | chalk | comminute | contriturate | cosmic dust | crumb | crumble | crush | disintegrate | dot | dredge | driven snow | dust | dust ball | efflorescence | fallout | farina | filings | fleece | foam | fragment | grain | granulate | granulize | grate | grind | grind to powder | grits | groats | ivory | kittens | levigate | lily | lint | maggot | mash | meal | milk | mill | paper | pearl | pepper | pestle | pound | powder | pulverize | pussies | raspings | reduce to powder | sawdust | scrunch | shard | sheet | shred | silver | smash | smut | snow | soot | spatter | speck | speckle | splatter | spot | sprinkle | squash | stud | swan | triturate See Also | bread | breadstuff | change over | convert | dough | dredge | food product | foodstuff | pastry | plain flour | semolina | soy flour | soybean flour | soybean meal | staff of life | wheat flour Flour In Webster's Dictionary \Flour\, n. [F. fleur de farine the flower (i.e., the
best) of meal, cf. Sp. flor de la harina superfine flour,
Icel. fl["u]r flower, flour. See {Flower}.]
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.
{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 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. [imp. & p. p. {Floured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flouring}.] 1. To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat. 2. To sprinkle with flour. |
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