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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 contained in the meal yielded by the stones. -- Flour box a tin box for scatte…

Finely granulated; -- said of quicksilver which has been granulated by agitation during the amalgamation process. Raymond.

iantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil. Bp. Horne.

One who flourishes.

, adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.

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

rob of the choicest ornament. He died innocent and before the sweetness of his soul was defloured and ravished from him. Jer. Taylor.

One who deflours; a ravisher.

To make excessive display or flourish of. Collier.

The lowest grade of flour in milling. It is dark and of little expansive power, is secured largely from the germ or embryo and adjacent parts, and contains a relatively high percentage of protein. It is chiefly useful as feed for farm animals.

To flourish again.

the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.

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.

ient; 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.