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Flaw

Flaw (flaw)
n.(fl***add])
Flaw
[OE. flai, flaw flake; cf. Sw. flaga flaw, crack, breach, flake, D. vlaag gust of wind, Norw. flage, flaag, and E. flag a flat stone.]
  1. A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.

    This heart
    Shall break into a hundered thousand flaws.
    Shak.

  2. A defect; a fault; as, a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute.

    Has not this also its flaws and its dark side? South.

  3. A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.
    [Obs.]

    And deluges of armies from the town
    Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw.
    Dryden.

  4. A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.

    Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw. Milton.

    Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn. Tennyson.

    Syn. -- Blemish; fault; imperfection; spot; speck.


Flaw

Flaw (flaw)
v. t.
Flaw
  1. To crack] to make flaws in.

    The brazen caldrons with the frosts are flawed. Dryden.

  2. To break; to violate; to make of no effect.
    [Obs.]

    France hath flawed the league. Shak.














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