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. ]
This heart
Shall break into a hundered thousand flaws. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Has not this also its flaws and its dark side? South. [ 1913 Webster ]
And deluges of armies from the town
Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn. Tennyson.
v. t.
The brazen caldrons with the frosts are flawed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
France hath flawed the league. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. having flaws or imperfections; not perfect; -- applied broadly;
a. Free from flaws. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OF. flaon, F. flan, LL. flado, fr. OHG. flado, G. fladen, a sort of pancake; cf. Gr. &unr_; broad. See Place. ] A sort of flat custard or pie. [ Obs. ] Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ Cf. Flay. ] To scrape or pare, as a skin. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.