n. & v.
--n.
1. a meal or powder obtained by grinding and usu. sifting cereals, esp. wheat.
2 any fine powder.
--v.tr.
1. sprinkle with flour.
2 US grind into flour.
Derivatives:
floury adj. (flourier, flouriest). flouriness n.
Etymology: ME, different. spelling of FLOWER in the sense 'finest part'