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An Asiatic sardine (Clupea Neohowii), valued for its oil.

See Lory.

See Color.

ob 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.

A dissembler. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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 scatter…

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

antly; 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.

A guiler; deceiver. [Obs.]

A whoremonger. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To make excessive display or flourish of. Collier.

A piller; a plunderer. [Obs.]

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.

One of many textile fabrics having a pile like that of velvet.

he 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.