flour

Meanings

Noun

• Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
• The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid and certain bleaching agents.
• Powder of other material.

Verb

• To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
• To reduce to flour.
• To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.

Related

Similar words

• smeddum, plain flour, wheat flour, white flour

Origin

• Spelled (until about 1830) and meaning flower in the sense of flour being the "finest portion of ground grain" (compare French fleur de farine, fine fleur). flower. Partially displaced native meal.
• The U.S. standard of identity comes from .