flaw a sudden and violent blast of wind (
“A flaw [or gust] of wind. Tourbillon de vent.>”
Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl.
Dict.
“A flaw of wind is
a gust, which is very violent upon a sudden, but quickly endeth.”
Smith's Sea Grammar, 1627,
p. 46.
The second of these quotations I owe to Mr. Bolton Corney):
“standing every flaw,”
CORIOLANUS, v. 3. 74
;
“the winter's flaw,”
HAMLET, v. 1. 210
;
“I do not fear the flaw,”
PERICLES, iii. 1. 39
;
“foul flaws,”
VENUS AND ADONIS, 456.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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