Botch (?), n.; 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.
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Botch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Botched (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Botching.] [See Botch, n.]
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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