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   Botch , n.; pl. Botches . [Same as Boss a stud. For senses 2 & 3 cf. D. botsen to beat, akin to E. beat.]
   A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. [Obs. or Dial.]
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   Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss.
   Milton.
   
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   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.
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   To leave no rubs nor botches in the work.
   Shak.
   
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   Botch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Botched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Botching.] [See Botch, n.]
   To mark with, or as with, botches.
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   Young Hylas, botched with stains.
   Garth.
   
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   To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
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   Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time.
   Robynson (More's Utopia).
   
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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.
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   For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane.
   Dryden.
   
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