figurative. A moral spot or blemish; a fault or vice; a bad quality or habit; in quots. 1340 –70, 1541, a physical blemish. Obsolete.

A fault, defect, blemish or imperfection, in action or procedure or in the constitution of a thing.

A blemish, flaw, fleck.

A small portion of a surface differing in character or aspect from the remainder; a mark, patch, spot, etc.; a stain. Also in early use: a scab on a…

A fault, a blemish. Obsolete. rare.

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

A physical disfigurement; a deformity. Obsolete. rare.

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

Physical defect or disfigurement; a stain. (Used spec. of the mark of injury to a horse, as the scar of a broken knee.)

= fitchew, n.

transferred. Any black or dark patch, especially as contrasted with light surroundings; also, anything that sullies or mars a fair surface, a…

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

A stain, a blemish; a sullying spot; a touch, trace, shade, tinge, or tincture of some bad or undesirable quality; a touch of discredit, dishonour…

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

A dirty mark; a spot of dirt; (also) a blemish. Also as a mass noun: dirt; grime; filth. Also figurative. Chiefly Scottish and English regional…

The action of scar, v. in various senses; an example of this; concrete an assemblage of scars.

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