Word Meanings - FLOUR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard. Flour bolt, in milling, a gauze-covered,

Additional info about word: FLOUR

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; 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 scattering flour; a dredging box. -- Flour dredge or dredger, a flour box. -- Flour dresser, a mashine for sorting and distributing flour according to grades of fineness. -- Flour mill, a mill for grinding and sifting flour. (more info) meal, cf. Sp. flor de la harina superfine flour, Icel. flür flower,

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• SEPARATISM
  The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.
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• POWDERY
  1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar. 2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums. 3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow." Wordsworth.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• FLOURY
  Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour. Dickens.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• MILLEPORITE
  A fossil millepore.
• COVERLET
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• MILLENNIAL
  Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.
• MILLED
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• MILLIFOLD
  Thousandfold. Davies .
• MILLIWEBER
  The thousandth part of one weber.
• POWDERED
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  Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• SEPARATIVE
  Causing, or being to cause, separation. "Separative virtue of extreme cold." Boyle.
• MILLIPED
  The same Milleped.
• DEFLOURER
  One who deflours; a ravisher.
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  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• GRISTMILL
  A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
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