Flour

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  • noun. A fine, powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a grain, especially wheat, used chiefly in baking.
  • noun. Any of various similar finely ground or powdered foodstuffs, as of cassava, chickpeas, or bananas.
  • noun. A soft, fine powder.
  • transitive verb. To cover or coat with flour.
  • transitive verb. To make into flour.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An obsolete spelling of flower (in the botanical and derived senses).
  • noun. The finely ground meal of wheat or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, any vegetable or other substance reduced to a fine and soft powder: as, flour of emery; hop-flour.
  • noun. A snow-like mass of finely crystallized saltpeter used in the manufacture of gunpowder.
  • An obsolete spelling of flower.
  • In mining, in the amalgamation process, the mercury is said to flour when it breaks up into fine globules, which, owing to the presence of some impurity, do not unite with the precious metal with which they are brought in contact.
  • To grind and bolt; convert into flour: as, to flour wheat.
  • To sprinkle with flour.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. a tin box for scattering flour; a dredging box.
  • noun. a flour box.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. a mashine for sorting and distributing flour according to grades of fineness.
  • noun. a mill for grinding and sifting flour.
  • transitive verb. To grind and bolt; to convert into flour.
  • transitive verb. To sprinkle with flour.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
  • noun. Powder of other material, e.g., wood flour produced by sanding wood.
  • noun. Obsolete form of flower.
  • verb. To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. cover with flour
  • verb. convert grain into flour
  • noun. fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain
  • Word Usage
    "The proportion of baking powder to be used in a batter or a dough is regulated by the quantity of flour employed and not, as is the case with soda and molasses or sour milk, by the quantity of liquid, the usual proportion being _2 level teaspoonfuls to 1 cupful of flour_."
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    convert  dredge  
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    Auer  Bower  Gower  Power  bour  
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