The pith or innermost part of a plant or tree; the pulp or edible inner part of a fruit; the kernel of a grain or nut. Now rare.

Fine flour, meal, or other farinaceous substance. Obsolete or dialect.

In full maine flour. Flour of the finest quality. Also in compounds, as maine multure n. the portion of maine flour payable as multure.

The finest wheaten flour. Obsolete.

Fine flour or meal; fine powder. Now historical.

Starch; finest flour. Cf. amydon, n.

? White flour of fine quality.

A fine powder; esp. fine flour. (For other late examples see smitham, n.)

Name given by bakers to a fine white flour, used by them for ‘dusting’ their loaves and troughs.

In the names of various foods or dishes originating in or associated with Vienna. As a modifier. Designating a type of bread originating in Vienna…

(a) finely powdered chalk used as a pigment or for its cleansing properties; (b) a fine quality of flour (see quot. 1882).