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To leave no rubs nor botches in the work. Shak.

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.

Botch"ed*ly (&?;), adv. In a clumsy manner.

Botch"er (&?;), n. 1. One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler. Shak.

2. A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.

3. (Zoöl.) A young salmon; a grilse.

Botch"er*ly, a. Bungling; awkward. [R.]

Botch"er*y (&?;), n. A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.

Botch"y (&?;), a. Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done. "This botchy business." Bp. Watson.

Bote (&?;), n. [Old form of boot; -- used in composition. See 1st Boot.] (Law) (a) Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain. (b) Payment of any kind. Bouvier. (c) A privilege or allowance of necessaries.

This word is still used in composition as equivalent to the French estovers, supplies, necessaries; as, housebote, a sufficiency of wood to repair a house, or for fuel, sometimes called firebote; so plowbote, cartbote, wood for making or repairing instruments of husbandry; haybote or hedgebote, wood for hedges, fences, etc. These were privileges enjoyed by tenants under the feudal system. Burrill. Bouvier. Blackstone.

Bote"less, a. Unavailing; in vain. See Bootless.

Bot"fly` (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) A dipterous insect of the family (Estridæ, of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvæ of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months and pass through their larval states. In tropical America one species sometimes lives under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly.

Both (&?;), a. or pron. [OE. bothe, ba&?;e, fr. Icel. b&?;ir; akin to Dan. baade, Sw. båda, Goth. baj&?;&?;s, OHG. beid&?;, b&?;d&?;, G. & D. beide, also AS. begen, b, b&?;, Goth. bai, and Gr. &?;, L. ambo, Lith. abà, OSlav. oba, Skr. ubha. √310. Cf. Amb-.] The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either.

It is generally used adjectively with nouns; as, both horses ran away; but with pronouns, and often with nous, it is used substantively, and followed by of.

It frequently stands as a pronoun.

She alone is heir to both of us. Shak.

Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. Gen. xxi. 27.

He will not bear the loss of his rank, because he can bear the loss of his estate; but he will bear both, because he is prepared for both. Bolingbroke.

It is often used in apposition with nouns or pronouns.

Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes. Shak.

This said, they both betook them several ways. Milton.

Both now always precedes any other attributive words; as, both their armies; both our eyes.