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

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

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

A verse wanting two syllables at its termination.

Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.

The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head.

Having short antennæ, as certain insects.

Pertaining to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism. Brachydiagonal axis, the shorter lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal.

A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. See Dome.

A writer in short hand; a stenographer. He asked the brachygrapher whether he wrote the notes of the sermon. Gayton.

Stenograhy. B. Jonson.

Conciseness of expression; brevity.

ombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.

A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.

A group of birds, including auks, divers, and penguins.

Having short wings.

A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid.

Of a short form.

all and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix.

Of or pertaining to the Brachyura.