Part 1298

<blockquote><b>Botches</b> and blains must all his flesh emboss. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>To leave no rubs nor <b>botches</b> in the work. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Botch</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Botch</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Botched</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Botching</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[See <er>Botch</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To mark with, or as with, botches.</def>

<blockquote>Young Hylas, <b>botched</b> with stains. <i>Garth.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with <i>up</i>.</def>

<blockquote>Sick bodies . . . to be kept and <b>botched</b> up for a time. <i>Robynson (More's Utopia).</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.</def>

<blockquote>For treason <b>botched</b> in rhyme will be thy bane. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Botchedly</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Botch"ed*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a clumsy manner.</def>

<h1>Botcher</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Botch"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A young salmon; a grilse.</def>

<h1>Botcherly</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Botch"er*ly</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Bungling; awkward.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Botchery</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Botch"er*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.</def>

<h1>Botchy</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Botch"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done.</def> "This <i>botchy</i> business."

<i>Bp. Watson.</i>

<h1>Bote</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Bote</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Old form of <ets>boot</ets>; -- used in composition. See 1st <er>Boot</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Law)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; <as>as, man <ex>bote</ex>, a compensation or a man slain</as>.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>Payment of any kind.</def> <i>Bouvier</i>. <sd>(c)</sd> <def>A privilege or allowance of necessaries.</def>

<note>&hand; This word is still used in composition as equivalent to the French <i>estovers</i>, supplies, necessaries; as, house<i>bote</i>, a sufficiency of wood to repair a house, or for fuel, sometimes called fire<i>bote</i>; so plow<i>bote</i>, cart<i>bote</i>, wood for making or repairing instruments of husbandry; hay<i>bote</i> or hedge<i>bote</i>, wood for hedges, fences, etc. These were privileges enjoyed by tenants under the feudal system.