Floridness

Brightne , or freshne of color, or complexion. -Embellishment; brilliancy of ornament, applied to IMG:content-0173.png:[blocks in formation] being starch. No substance is more adulterated than wheat-flour; and there are several modes of detection, the best of which is the specific-gravity test, as a ve el which contains one pound of wheat-flour will contain nearly a pound and a half of any other. Some chemical tests are also extremely good. Firstly, nitric acid, which has the effect of coloring wheat-flour of a fine orange yellow, while it does not affect the color of fecula or starch; 2dly, muriatic acid colors bona fide wheat-flour of a deep violet, but di olves fecula and starch into a light viscous fluid, which is decomposable by the admixture of any alkali. Another test is the amount of ash left after the sample being burnt. Wheat-flour yields, on the average, 0-8 per cent.; rye-flour, 1-0; bean and pea-meal, 3; and linseed-meal, 10 per cent. of ash, by which means adulteration can be detected. Florilege, n . [Lat. florilegium .] A gathering of flowers. Flor'in, n. [Fr., from It. fiorino ; L. Lat. florenus ; Ger. floren.] (Coins.) The name of a gold coin first struck in Florence in the 13th century. It was the size of a ducat, and had on one side a lily, and on the other the head of John the Baptist. Some derive the name from the city, and others from the flower. These coins were soon imitated all over Europe. It was out of them that the German gold guldens of the Middle Ages and the modern guldens arose. These last are still marked by the letters Fl . At present the English two-shilling sil- ver piece, first coined in 1849, bears the official name -To sprinkle with flour. of florin. It has nearly the value of the Austrian new Flour'-barrel, n. A barrel made to hold flour. silver florin, a unit of account, worth 48-6 cents of our Flour-box, FLOUR-DREDGE, n. A box to hold or sprin- money.