Defect /(?)/

De·fect

Defect

n.
  1. Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.
    Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied.
    — Davies.
  2. Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment.
    Trust not yourself; but, your defects to know, Make use of every friend -- and every foe.
    Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects.

Defect

v. i.
  1. To fail; to become deficient. [Obs.]
  2. to abandon one country or faction, and join another.

Defect

v. t.
  1. To injure; to damage. [R.]