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See Deflourer. Milton.

To deflour; to deprive of virginity. [Obs.] Bailey.

To deflour; to dishonor. [Obs.]

To deprive of virginity; to deflour. [R.] Sandys.

A deflouring. [R.] Feltham.

Pain; grief; distress; anguish. [Written also dolour.] [Poetic] Of death and dolor telling sad tidings. Spenser.

Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.

To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat. Beau. & Fl. Dredging box. (a) Same as 2d Dredger. (b) (Gun.) A copper box with a perforated lid; -- used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses. Farrow.

A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box.

A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.

A stiff flour pudding, boiled in a bag; -- a term used especially by seamen; as, plum duff.

e use of dunder in the making of rum answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour. B. Edwards.

A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.

Designating, made of, or relating to, flour including a considerable part of the bran.

A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase. The fanfare announcing the arrival of the various Christian princes. Sir W. Scott.

Fantastic designs. Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. Hawthorne.

A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.

Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet.

Not coarse; comminuted; in small particles; as, fine sand or flour.

One of a fanatical sect which flourished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; -- called also disciplinant.