ppl. a. [f. FLOUR sb. or v. + -ED.]
1. Sprinkled or covered with flour.
1814. Sir R. Wilson, Diary (1861), II. 328. We are too old mice to be caught by a floured cat.
1849. Sidonia Sorc., I. 225. A miller had thrown down a poor lean weaver close behind the criminal, and was belabouring him stoutly with his floured fists.
1873. Miss Broughton, Nancy, III. xi. 184–5. Looking at me exhaustively from top to toe—from the highest summit of my floured head to the point of my buckled shoes.
2. (See quot.)
1881. Raymond, Mining Gloss., Floured. The finely granulated condition of quicksilver, produced to a greater or less extent by its agitation during the amalgamation process.
