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DEFECT, n. L. To fail to make or do.

1. Want or absence of something necessary or useful towards perfection fault imperfection.

Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied.

We say, there are numerous defects in the plan, or in the work, or in the execution.

2. Failing fault mistake imperfection in moral conduct, or in judgment.

A deep conviction of the defects of our lives tends to make us humble.

Trust not yourself but, your defects to know,

Make use of every friend and every foe.

3. Any want, or imperfection, in natural objects the absence of any thing necessary to perfection any thing unnatural or misplaced blemish deformity. We speak of a defect in the organs of seeing or hearing, or in a limb a defect in timber a defect in an instrument, &c.

DEFECT, To be deficient.