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Botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy. [R.] Shak.

Wrong; defective; faulty. [R.] Ayliffe.

Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct. My strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Cor. xii. 9. Three glorious sun…

Fig.: To smooth over; to cover or conceal the defects of; to hide, as with a covering of plaster. Bale.

A defect of vision consequent upon advancing age. It is due to rigidity of the crystalline lens, which producepresbytia.

Obstruction, dimness, or defect of sight. [Obs.] Milton.

fall out; to be or become antagonistic. Our people quarrel with obedience. Shak. But some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed. Shak.

at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective.

annulling of a sale, and the return by the buyer of the article sold, on account of some defect.

Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government. Civil service reform. See under Civil. -- Reform acts (Eng. Politics), acts of Parliament passed in 1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular representation in Parliament. -- Refor…

The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand.

or right he had before; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit. Bouvier.

To ordain again, as when the first ordination is considered defective. Bp. Burnet.

To go over with critical examination, in order to discover exellences or defects; hence, to write a critical notice of; as, to review a new novel.

ritish navy, to identify it if stolen, or for the purpose of tracing the maker in case of defect. Different makers are required to use yarns of different colors.

Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. "The deepness of the rotten way." Knolles. Rotten borough. See under Borough. -- Rotten stone (Min.), a soft stone, called also Tripoli (from the country from which it was formerly brought), used in all sorts of finer grindin…

Full and smoothly expanded; not defective or abrupt; finished; polished; -- said of style, or of authors with reference to their style. [Obs.] In his satires Horace is quick, round, and pleasant. Peacham.

Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. Shak.

or forgings can be made; -- called also wrought-iron scrap. (b) Fragments of cast iron or defective castings suitable for remelting in the foundry; -- called also founding scrap, or cast scrap.

Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.