<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the finely ground meal of grain, especially the finer meal separated by bolting.</li><li>the finely ground and bolted meal of wheat, as that used in baking.</li><li>any finely ground meal resembling this, as of nuts or legumes: chickpea flour, almond flour.</li><li>a finely ground, powdery foodstuff, as of dehydrated potatoes, fish, or bananas.</li><li>a fine, soft powder: flour of emery.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to grind (grain or the like) into flour.</li><li>to sprinkle or dredge with flour: Flour the chicken before frying.</li><li>(used without object) (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.</li><li>to disintegrate into minute particles.</li></ul>