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

Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw.

Milton.

Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn.

Tennyson.

Syn. -- Blemish; fault; imperfection; spot; speck.

Flaw, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flawed (fld); p. pr. & vb. n. Flawing.] 1. To

crack; to make flaws in.

The brazen caldrons with the frosts are flawed.

Dryden.

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