[flour] n [ME--more at flower] (13c) 1: finely ground meal of wheat usu. largely freed from bran; also: a similar meal of another material (as a cereal grain, an edible seed, or dried processed fish)
2: a fine soft powder -- flour.less adj -- floury adj
[2]flour vt (ca. 1657): to coat with or as if with flour ~ vi: to break up into particles