Noah Webster
Flour
FLOUR, noun [originally flower; Latin flos, floris, from floreo, to flourish.]
The edible part of corn; meal. In the United States, the modern practice is to make a distinction between flour and meal; the word flour being more usually applied to the finer part of meal, separated from the bran, as wheat flour rye flour This is a just and useful distinction.
FLOUR, verb transitive
1. To grind and bolt; to convert into flour Wheat used formerly to be sent to market; but now great quantities of it are floured in the interior country.
2. To sprinkle with flour