[ Flour], sb. flower, C2, C3; flur, S; floures, pl., youthful powers, S2.—AF. flur; Lat. florem.
[ Flour-dammes], sb. ladies’ flower, perhaps Dame’s violet or Dame-wort, Hesperis matronalis (Britten’s Plant-names); Mr. Small suggests ‘damask rose,’ S3.
[ Floure-de-lice], sb. fleur-de-lys, S2; flour-de-lyss, S3; flour-de-lycis, pl., S3.—OF. flor de lis (Bartsch, 193. 2).
[ Flouren], v. to flower, flourish, PP, C2, W2.—OF. florir.—Cf. [Florischen].
Flowe, Flowen; see [Fleen].
[ Flowen], v. to flow, S, PP; flowe, to abound, W2; flohþ, pr. s., S; floȝed, pt. s., S2.—AS. flówan, pt. fléow, pp. flówen.
[ Flowing], sb. flood, W2.
[ Flowte], sb. pipe, cambucus, Prompt.; floyte, MD.—OF. flaute, It. flauto.
[ Flowten], v. to blow on a wind instrument, MD; flowtyn, calamiso, flo, Prompt.; floytynge, pr. p., C.—OF. fläuter; Late Lat. *flatuare from Lat. flatus; see Constans.
[ Flowtour], sb., fluter, piper, CM.