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   Flaw (fla̤), n. [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”.
   
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   This heart
   
   Shall break into a hundered thousand flaws. Shak.
   
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   2. A defect; a fault; as, “a flaw in reputation; a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute.”
   
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   Has not this also its flaws and its dark side? South.
   
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   3. A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel. [Obs.]
   
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   And deluges of armies from the town
   
   Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw. Dryden.
   
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   4. A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.
   
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   Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw. Milton.
   
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   Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn. Tennyson.
   
   Syn. -- Blemish; fault; imperfection; spot; speck.
   
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   Flaw, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flawed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Flawing.]
   1. To crack; to make flaws in.
   
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   The brazen caldrons with the frosts are flawed. Dryden.
   
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   2. To break; to violate; to make of no effect. [Obs.]
   
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   France hath flawed the league. Shak.
   
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