Flaw /(fla̤)/

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.

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?

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.

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

   Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw.

   Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn.

imp. & p. p. Flawed; p. pr. & vb. n. Flawing

1. To crack; to make flaws in.

   The brazen caldrons with the frosts are flawed.

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

   France hath flawed the league.