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An article of food made by boiling together bits or scraps of meat, usually pork, and flour or Indian meal.

A mark or flourish added to a person's signature, intended to represent a seal, and in some States allowed as a substitute for a seal. [U.S.] Burrill.

ticle of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; esp., a coarse or inferior kind of flour.

The act of one who, or of that which, ships; as, the shipping of flour to Liverpool.

week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place. [Written also shewbread.] Mark ii. 26.…

arate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel. [Obs.] Not common bread, but vastel bread, or simnels. Fuller.

A side dish served hot from the oven at dinner, made of eggs, milk, and flour or other farinaceous substance, beaten till very light, and flavored with fruits, liquors, or essence.

pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.

-- called also turkish sponge. -- To set a sponge (Cookery), to leaven a small mass of flour, to be used in leavening a larger quantity. -- To throw up the sponge, to give up a contest; to acknowledge defeat; -- from a custom of the prize ring, the person employed to sponge a pugilist between rounds throwing his spo…

A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.

The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding. De Colange.

To flourish, so as to make the sound swish. Coleridge.

dermestoid beetle (Attagenus piceus) whose larva feeds on tapestry, carpets, silk, fur, flour, and various other goods.

nd tempse.] [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Temse bread, Temsed bread, Temse loaf, bread made of flour better sifted than common fluor. [Prov. Eng.]

Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2.

To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a good soil.

scles of the face; twitching; velication; -- called also spasmodic tic. Dunglison. Tic douloureux (. Etym: [F., fr. tic a knack, a twitching + douloureux painful.] (Med.) Neuralgia in the face; face ague. See under Face.

Hence, assuming superiority; proud. The great and flourishing condition of some of the topping sinners of the world. South.

An unleavened cake, as of maize flour, baked on a heated iron or stone.