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   Flaw , 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.]
   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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   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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   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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   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.]
   To crack; to make flaws in.
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   The brazen caldrons with the frosts are flawed.
   Dryden.
   
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   To break; to violate; to make of no effect. [Obs.]
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   France hath flawed the league.
   Shak.
   
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