Botch
Botch
n.
pl. Botches
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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.
- A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
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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.
Botch
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Botched; p. pr. & vb. n. Botching
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To mark with, or as with, botches.
Young Hylas, botched with stains.
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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.
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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.