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A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.

Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done. "This botchy business." Bp. Watson.

Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote, a compensation or a man slain.

Unavailing; in vain. See Bootless.

he 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 un…

The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either.

A factotum. [R.] He is his master's both-hands, I assure you. B. Jonson.

To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome. Without bothering about it. H. James.

The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation. [Colloq.]

One who bothers.

Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.

Same as Bothy. [Scot.]

Of or pertaining to Bothnia, a country of northern Europe, or to a gulf of the same name which forms the northern part of the Baltic sea.

Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood.

, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth. [Scot.]

A Brazilian tribe of Indians, noted for their use of poisons; - - also called Aymborés.

A hydrous sulphate of iron of a deep red color. It often occurs in botryoidal form.

Having the form of a bunch of grapes; like a cluster of grapes, as a mineral presenting an aggregation of small spherical or spheroidal prominences.

A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure.

Having the form of a cluster of grapes.