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Webster 1913 Edition
Botch
Botch
,Noun.
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. Shakespeare
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 bungle; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
For treason
botched
in rhyme will be thy bane. Dryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Botch
BOTCH
,Noun.
1.
A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection.Botches and blains must all his flesh imboss.
2.
A patch,or the part of a garment patched or mended in aclumsy manner; ill-finished work in mending.
3.
That which resembles a botch; a part added clumsily; adventitious or ill-applied words.If those words are not notorious botches, I am deceived.