a. Also 6 flowry. [f. FLOUR sb. + -Y1.] a. Of or pertaining to flour. † Of grain: Yielding flour. b. Covered or sprinkled with flour or powder. c. Resembling flour; flour-like, mealy, powdery.
a. 1591. Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. iv. 648.
| The shaft the wheel, the wheel the trendle turns, | |
| And that the stone which grinds the floury corns. |
1870. Morris, Earthly Par., IV. 296.
| A full stream runs, that dealeth with a mill, | |
| My brother’s too, whose floury duskiness | |
| Our hungry souls with many a hope did bless. |
b. 1826. Hood, Irish Schoolm., xxix.
| There dwells, I wot, some dronish Dominie, | |
| That does no garden work, nor yet doth teach, | |
| But wears a floury head, and talks in flow’ry speech! |
1884. Thomas A. Janvier, Rose Madder, in Century Mag., XXVIII. 88. In one of her beautiful plump arms was a red gash, and all her lovely arm was bloody, and there was blood upon her floury apron and on the floor.
c. 1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 171. Embryo surrounding floury albumen.
1865. Milton & Cheadle, N. W. Pass. by Land, ix. 152. The firm path formed by the beating down of the snow was now a considerable height above the ground, like a rail the width of a sleigh, running along in the soft, floury powder at the sides.
1888. Powles, trans. Kick’s Flour Manuf., App. § 4. 283. Another method of making potato flour is to steam the peeled potatoes until they become quite floury (‘mealy’), then to press them, and finally to dry them in the air on shelves.
