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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.

Free from flaws. Boyle.

A sort of flat custard or pie. [Obs.] Tusser.

To scrape o [Obs.] Johnson.

Full of flaws or cracks; broken; defective; faulty. Johnson.

A whitlow. [Obs.] Holland.

Whitlow. [Obs.] "The nails fallen off by whitflaws." Herrick.

An opening caused by the parting of any solid body; a crack or breach; a flaw. Stain or brack in her sweet reputation. J. Fletcher.

Ropture; flaw; breach, in a moral sense. My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw. Shak.

To crack; to flaw. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure. "I know my life so even." Shak.

To keep out, off, or away; to exclude. "To expel the winter's flaw." Shak.

European sting ray of the genus Trygon (T. pastinaca); -- called also fireflare and fiery flaw.

wind; a sudden and brief rushing or driving of the wind. Snow, and hail, stormy gust and flaw. Milton.

dundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct. My strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Cor. xii. 9. Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun. Shak. I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Sha…

Whole; unbroken; unharmed; free from flaw, defect, or decay; perfect of the kind; as, sound timber; sound fruit; a sound tooth; a sound ship.

em to be solved, or an example to be wrought out. Macaulay. A sum in arithmetic wherein a flaw discovered at a particular point is ipso facto fatal to the whole. Gladstone. A large sheet of paper . . . covered with long sums. Dickens. Algebraic sum, as distinguished from arithmetical sum, the aggregate of two or more n…