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Divination by means of flour. Encyc. Brit.

An instrument for determining the expansive properties, or quality, of gluten in flour. Knight.

Flour made of aleurone, used as a substitute for ordinary flour in preparing bread for diabetic persons.

ent; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome. For the antique world excess and pride did hate. Spenser.

To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.

A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc. , beaten together and used in cookery. King.

(Min.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite.

A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit.

ting of matters extracted from meat by boiling, or of meat ground fine and combined with flour, so as to form biscuits.

To cause to blossom; to make flourish. [R.] Charitable affection bloomed them. Hooker.

Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray. But all the bloomy flush of life is fled. Goldsmith.

To flourish and prosper. Israel shall blossom and bud, and full the face of the world with fruit. Isa. xxvii. 6.

To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means. He now had bolted all the flour. Spenser. Ill schooled in bolted language. Shak.

One who sifts flour or meal.

A sifting, as of flour or meal.

A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwaft box (B.suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens. The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, m…

The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.

her way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour.

To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish. The quivering lance which he brandished bright. Drake.

An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.