A defect, imperfection, blameable quality or feature. in physical or intellectual constitution, appearance, structure, workmanship, etc.

A breach, blemish, failing. Obsolete.

Imperfection, defect, or injury in things. Obsolete. rare.

A fault, a blemish. Obsolete. rare.

An imperfection in a person or thing; a shortcoming, a failing; a fault, flaw, or abnormality.

Defect, imperfection; an instance of this. Now rare.

A defect or fault; an imperfection. Obsolete.

transferred.

A place rubbed bare; an unsound spot, fault or flaw; in early use also a breach. Now only technical.

A defect, a flaw; a deformity. Obsolete.

A thing which mars or impairs something; a drawback to. Formerly also: †a fault (obsolete rare).

figurative. A flaw, fault, ground for blame. Usually in to pick a holeor holes in something; formerly also to find (pick, make) a hole in a person's…

transferred. A defect, imperfection, flaw, in any object, matter, condition, or work.

transferred and figurative (from sense 1). A relatively small, or disfiguring, protuberance. Sometimes with implied reference to next sense.

A defect, imperfection, fault, blemish. in material things.

figurative. A blemish, fault, or defect, esp. one considered as a penalty or punishment imposed by nature. Obsolete.

An imperfection, a flaw. Obsolete.

A lapse, a slight fault; a failing, infirmity. Obsolete.

A distorted feature, distortion; a bad feature or trait.

Originally U.S. A defect or fault in a machine (esp. an electrical or electronic one), or in a process, etc.

colloquial (chiefly U.S.) A defect or blemish; a disadvantage. Now rare.