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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,

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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.
  • GRAINED
    Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. (more info) 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. 2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped,
  • 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
    The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
  • MILLENNIAL
    Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.
  • MILLED
    Having been subjected to some process of milling. Milled cloth, cloth that has been beaten in a fulling mill. -- Milled lead, lead rolled into sheets.
  • MILLIFOLD
    Thousandfold. Davies .
  • MILLIWEBER
    The thousandth part of one weber.
  • POWDERED
    See WALPOLE (more info) 1. Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder. 2. Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. Powdered beef, pickled meats. Harvey.
  • MILLESIMAL
    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.
  • BARKER'S MILL
    A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis.
  • NOTOTHERIUM
    An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
  • MISGROUND
    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
    Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • CONFINER
    One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
  • WALK-MILL
    A fulling mill. Halliwell.
  • SMOTHER
    Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
  • UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
    Wildcat insurance.
  • ISOTHEROMBROSE
    A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
  • DRIFTBOLT
    A bolt for driving out other bolts.
  • PLAYGROUND
    A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.

 

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