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1828 Definition

BOTCH, n. [Eng.patch.]

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 a

clumsy 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.
1913 Definition
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.

  4. To mark with, or as with, botches.

    Young Hylas, botched with stains.
    Garth.

  5. 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).

  6. 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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