This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
[Fr., from L. flos, flower.] The finest part of meal or corn ground into fine powder. In milling, meal is separated into flour and bran, the meal being afterwards separated from the bran by bolting through a gauze-covered revolving cylinder. There are various kinds of flour, some fine, others coarse, and of different grains, as wheat, rye, etc.
 
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