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Botch (&unr_;), n.; pl. Botches (&unr_;). [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.]
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Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.
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2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
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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.
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To leave no rubs nor botches in the work. Shak.
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Botch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Botched (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Botching.] [See Botch, n.] 1. To mark with, or as with, botches.
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Young Hylas, botched with stains. Garth.
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2. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
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Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time. Robynson (More's Utopia).
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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.
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For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane. Dryden.
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