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."
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