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Botch

Botch (botch)
n.((?))
Botch
; pl. Botches ((?)). [Same as Boss a stud. For senses 2 *** 3 cf. D. botsen to beat, akin to E. beat.]
  1. A swelling on the skin] a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
    [Obs. or Dial.]

    Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss.
    Milton.

  2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
  3. Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.

    To leave no rubs nor botches in the work.
    Shak.

Botch

Botch (botch)
v. t.
Botch
  1. To mark with, or as with, botches.

    Young Hylas, botched with stains.
    Garth.

  2. To repair] to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.

    Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time.
    Robynson (More's Utopia).

  3. To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.

    For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane.
    Dryden.













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