n. A state of perturbed action or feeling; a violent agitation, physical or mental; a disordered or excited movement; flutter; commotion: as, to be in a continual flurry; to raise a flurry in an assembly.n. Specifically, of a whale, the death-agony; the spasmodic action of the animal while expiring.n. A sudden brief movement of air; an irregular blast or gust: as, a flurry of wind.n. A fluttering assemblage of things, as snow-flakes, carried by or passing through the air.n. In calico-printing, a state of frothiness developed by some colors in the process of printing, due in some to quick printing and in others to slow printing. It is obviated by the use of glycerin, oil, turpentine, or alcohol.To produce agitation of feeling in; confuse by excitement or alarm.In heraldry, same as fleury.n. The scum that forms on top of a dye-vat, as an indigo-blue vat.