FLAW

n. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

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.
n.

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.
n.

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.
n.

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.

5.
v.

To crack; to make flaws in. The brazen caldrons with the frosts are flawed. Dryden.

6.
v.

To break; to violate; to make of no effect. [Obs.] France hath flawed the league. Shak.

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