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.
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.