flour: Meaning and Definition of

flour

1. the finely ground meal of grain, esp. the finer meal separated by bolting.
2. the finely ground and bolted meal of wheat, as that used in baking.
3. a finely ground, powdery foodstuff, as of dehydrated potatoes, fish, or bananas.
4. a fine, soft powder: flour of emery.

1. to make (grain or the like) into flour; grind and bolt.
2. to sprinkle or dredge with flour: Flour the chicken before frying.

1. (of mercury) to refuse to amalgamate with another metal because of some impurity of the metal; lie on the surface of the metal in the form of minute globules.
2. to disintegrate into minute particles.