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ure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000. Brande & C.

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 co…

Made of, or resembling, wheat or other grain.

Of or pertaining to wheat or grain. [R.] Coles.

Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc. [Written also furmenty and furmity.] Halliwell.

A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified).

Vegetable glue or gelatin; glutin. It is one of the constituents of wheat gluten, and is a tough, amorphous substance, which resembles animal glue or gelatin.

Bread made of unbolted wheat flour. [U. S.] Bartlett.

A single small hard seed; a kernel, especially of those plants, like wheat, whose seeds are used for food.

A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour.

Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.

Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits. Embden groats, crushed oats.

To cause to grow; to cultivate; to produce; as, to grow a crop; to grow wheat, hops, or tobacco. Macaulay.

ltböllia incurvata, and to the species of Ægilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived.

very small European field mouse (Mus minutus). It builds a globular nest on the stems of wheat and other plants. -- Harvest queen, an image pepresenting Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of harvest. Milton. -- Harvest spider. (Zoöl.) See Daddy longlegs.

The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw.

An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals.

A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only.

a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water. "Sow the headland with wheat." Shak.

idomyia destructor). Its larvæ live between the base of the lower leaves and the stalk of wheat, and are very destructive to young wheat; -- so called from the erroneous idea that it was brought into America by the Hessian troops, during the Revolution.