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Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. [R.] Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree. Jer. Taylor.

r 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 b…

Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour. Dickens.

To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.

(Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius), having usually a bright red or yellowish cap covered with irregular white spots. It has a distinct volva at the base, generally an upper ring on the stalk, and white spores. Called also fly agaric, deadly amanita.

The covering of an insect, esp. the elytra of beetles.

A large Dutch coasting vessel. Captain George Weymouth made a voyage of discovery to the northwest with two flyboats. Purchas.

Covered with foam; frothy; spumy. Behold how high the foamy billows ride! Dryden.

To cover or wrap up; to conceal. Nor fold my fault in cleanly coined excuses. Shak.

The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston.

eral united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda.

To know or discover beforehand; to foretell. [Obs.] Which [maid] could guess and foredeem of things past, present, and to come. Genevan Test.

A kind of parchment for book covers. See Forrill.

The outside or external covering. Spenser.

The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce.

An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.

Spent with heat; covered with sweat. [Obs.] P. Sidney.

The process of putting a book into its cover, and making it ready for the finisher.

Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is fou…

The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering.