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.
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.
