farinaceous

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Farinaceous, mealy, consisting of meal or flour; from farina, flour.

From A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. by Anonymous

Flivver, they suggested, and Frog-face and Flathead and Farinaceous and Freezone and Flapdoodle and Foghorn.

From Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair

If Hard's Farinaceous food produces costiveness—as it sometimes does—let it be mixed either with equal parts or with one third of Robinson's Scotch Oatmeal.

From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Chavasse, Pye Henry

Farinaceous food in some form, usually as a gruel.

From The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses by Holt, L. Emmett

Farinaceous articles of food are generally not well borne in this fever, because the diminution in the secretion of the salivary glands which almost always exists prevents their proper digestion.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various