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Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition. -- Botan"ic*al*ly, adv. Botanic garden, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. -- Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines c…

One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.

To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.

One who botanizes.

A botanist. [Obs.]

The science of botany. [Obs.] Bailey.

An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves.

A book which treats of the science of botany.

A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.

A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.

ing on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. [Obs. or Dial.] Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

In a clumsy manner.

One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler. Shak.

Bungling; awkward. [R.]

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…