Obs. [Cf. Dn. vlak blot, speck; also FLECK sb.] A blemish, flaw, fleck.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., A. 946.
| & as hys flok is with-outen flake, | |
| So is hys mote with-outen moote. |
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 263. To see theyr finenesse, they take them [rubies] vp with a piece of waxe by the sharpest poynt: and lookynge ageynst the lyght, espie in theim euery smaule spot or flake.
