Chapter 184

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.

Botchedly <Xpage=169>

Botch"ed*ly (?) , adv. In a clumsy manner.

Botcher <Xpage=169>

Botch"er (?) , n. 1. One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler.

Shak.

2. A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.

3. (Zo\'94l.) A young salmon; a grilse.

Botcherly <Xpage=169>

Botch"er*ly , a. Bungling; awkward. [R.]

Botchery <Xpage=169>

Botch"er*y (?) , n. A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.

Botchy <Xpage=169>

Botch"y (?) , a. Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done. "This botchy business."

Bp. Watson.

Bote <Xpage=169>

Bote (?) , n. [Old form of boot ; -- used in composition. See 1st Boot .] (Law) (a) Compensation; amends; satisfaction; expiation; as, man bote , a compensation or a man slain . (b) Payment of any kind. Bouvier . (c) A privilege or allowance of necessaries.

&hand; This word is still used in composition as equivalent to the French estovers , supplies, necessaries; as, house bote , a sufficiency of wood to repair a house, or for fuel, sometimes called fire bote ; so plow bote , cart bote , wood for making or repairing instruments of husbandry; hay bote or hedge bote , wood for hedges, fences, etc. These were privileges enjoyed by tenants under the feudal system.

Burrill. Bouvier. Blackstone.

Boteless <Xpage=169>

Bote"less , a. Unavailing; in vain. See Bootless .

Botfly <Xpage=169>

Bot"fly` (?) , n. (Zo\'94l.) A dipterous insect of the family ( Estrid\'91 , of many different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse ( Gastrophilus equi ), the larv\'91 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 under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly .

Both <Xpage=169>

Both (?) , a. or pron. [OE. bothe , ba<?/e , fr. Icel. b\'be<?/ir ; akin to Dan. baade , Sw. b\'86da , Goth. baj<?/<?/s , OHG. beid<?/ , b<?/d<?/ , G. & D. beide , also AS. begen , b\'be , b<?/ , Goth. bai , and Gr. <?/ , L. ambo , Lith. ab\'85 , OSlav. oba , Skr. ubha . &root;310. Cf. Amb -.] The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either.

&hand; It is generally used adjectively with nouns; as, both horses ran away; but with pronouns, and often with nous, it is used substantively, and followed by of .

It frequently stands as a pronoun.

She alone is heir to both of us. Shak.

Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. Gen. xxi. 27.

He will not bear the loss of his rank, because he can bear the loss of his estate; but he will bear both , because he is prepared for both . Bolingbroke.

It is often used in apposition with nouns or pronouns.

Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes. Shak.

This said, they both betook them several ways. Milton.

Both now always precedes any other attributive words; as, both their armies; both our eyes.

Both of is used before pronouns in the objective case; as, both of us, them, whom, etc.; but before substantives its used is colloquial, both (without of ) being the preferred form; as, both the brothers.

Both <Xpage=169>

Both , conj. As well; not only; equally.

Both precedes the first of two co\'94rdinate words or phrases, and is followed by and before the other, both . . . and . . . ; as well the one as the other; not only this, but also that; equally the former and the latter. It is also sometimes followed by more than two co\'94rdinate words, connected by and expressed or understood.

To judge both quick and dead. Milton.

A masterpiece both for argument and style. Goldsmith.

To whom bothe heven and erthe and see is sene. Chaucer.

Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound. Goldsmith.

He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. Coleridge.

Bother <Xpage=169>

Both"er (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bothered (<?/); p. pr. & vb. n. Bothering .] [Cf. Ir. buaidhirt trouble, buaidhrim I vex.] To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother .

&hand; The imperative is sometimes used as an exclamation mildly imprecatory.

Bother <Xpage=169>

Both"er , v. i. To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.

Without bothering about it. H. James.

Bother <Xpage=169>

Both"er , n. One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother .

Botheration <Xpage=169>

Both`er*a"tion (?) , n. The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation. [Colloq.]

Botherer <Xpage=169>

Both"er*er (?) , n. One who bothers.

Bothersome <Xpage=169>

Both"er*some (?) , a. Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.

Both-hands <Xpage=169>

Both"-hands` (?) , n. A factotum. [R.]

He is his master's both-hands , I assure you. B. Jonson.

Bothie <Xpage=169>

Both"ie (?) , n. Same as Bothy . [Scot.]

Bothnian, Bothnic <Xpage=169>

Both"ni*an (?) , Both"nic (?) , a. 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.

Bothrenchyma <Xpage=169>

Both*ren"chy*ma (?) , n. [Gr. <?/ pit + <?/ something poured in. Formed like parenchyma .] (Bot.) Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood.

Bothy Boothy <Xpage=169>

Both"y (?) Booth"y (?) n. ; pl. -ies (#) [Scottish. Cf. Booth .] 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.]

Botocudos <Xpage=169>

Bo`to*cu"dos (?) , n. pl. [Pg. botoque stopple. So called because they wear a wooden plug in the pierced lower lip.] A Brazilian tribe of Indians, noted for their use of poisons; -- also called Aymbor\'82s .

Bo tree <Xpage=169>

Bo" tree` (?) . (Bot.) The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha.

The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists ( Ficus religiosa ), which is planted close to every temple, and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of the god himself. . . . It differs from the banyan ( Ficus Indica ) by sending down no roots from its branches. Tennent.

Botryogen <Xpage=169>

Bot"ry*o*gen (?) , n. [Gr. <?/ cluster of grapes + -gen .] (Min.) A hydrous sulphate of iron of a deep red color. It often occurs in botryoidal form.

Botryoid, Botryoidal <Xpage=169>

Bot"ry*oid (?) , Bot`ry*oid"al (?) , a. [Gr. <?/ cluster of grapes + -oid .] 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.

Botryolite <Xpage=169>

Bot"ry*o*lite (?) , n. [Gr. <?/ cluster of grapes + -lite .] (Min.) A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure.

Botryose <Xpage=169>

Bot"ry*ose` (?) , a. (Bot.) (a) Having the form of a cluster of grapes. (b) Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence.

Gray.

Bots <Xpage=169>

Bots (?) , n. pl. [Cf. Gael. botus belly worm, boiteag maggot.] (Zo\'94l.) The larv\'91 of several species of botfly, especially those larv\'91 which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments. [Written also botts .] See Illust . of Botfly .

Bottine <Xpage=169>

Bot*tine" (?) , n. [F. See Boot (for the foot.).]

1. A small boot; a lady's boot.

2. An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children.

Dunglison.

Bottle <Xpage=169>

Bot"tle (?) , n. [OE. bote , botelle , OF. botel , bouteille , F. bouteille , fr. LL. buticula , dim. of butis , buttis , butta , flask. Cf. Butt a cask.] 1. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.

2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine .

3. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle .

&hand; Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound.

Bottle ale , bottled ale. [Obs.] Shak . -- Bottle brush , a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles. -- Bottle fish (Zo\'94l.) , a kind of deep-sea eel ( Saccopharynx ampullaceus ), remarkable for its baglike gullet, which enables it to swallow fishes two or three times its won size. -- Bottle flower . (Bot.) Same as Bluebottle . -- Bottle glass , a coarse, green glass, used in the manufacture of bottles. Ure . -- Bottle gourd (Bot.) , the common gourd or calabash ( Lagenaria Vulgaris ), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc. -- Bottle grass (Bot.) , a nutritious fodder grass ( Setaria glauca and S. viridis ); -- called also foxtail , and green foxtail . -- Bottle tit (Zo\'94l.) , the European long-tailed titmouse; -- so called from the shape of its nest. -- Bottle tree (Bot.) , an Australian tree ( Sterculia rupestris ), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen, trunk. -- Feeding bottle , Nursing bottle , a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tubve), used in feeding infants.

Bottle <Xpage=169>

Bot"tle , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bottled (#) p. pr. & vb. n. Bottling (#) .] To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.

Bottle <Xpage=169>

Bot"tle , n. [OE. botel , OF. botel , dim. of F. botte ; cf. OHG. bozo bunch. See Boss stud.] A bundle, esp. of hay. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Chaucer. Shak.

Bottled <Xpage=169>

Bot"tled (?) , a. 1. Put into bottles; inclosed in bottles; pent up in, or as in, a bottle.

2. Having the shape of a bottle; protuberant.

Shak.

Bottle green <Xpage=169>

Bot"tle green` (?) A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. -- Bot"tle-green` , a.

Bottlehead <Xpage=169>

Bot"tle*head` (?) , n. (Zo\'94l.) A cetacean allied to the grampus; -- called also bottle-nosed whale <-- bottle-nosed dolphin? -->.

&hand; There are several species so named, as the pilot whales, of the genus Globicephalus , and one or more species of Hypero\'94don ( H. bidens , etc.), found on the European coast. See Blackfish , 1.

Bottleholder <Xpage=169>

Bot"tle*hold`er (?) , n. 1. One who attends a pugilist in a prize fight; -- so called from the bottle of water of which he has charge.

2. One who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer. [Colloq.]

Lord Palmerston considered himself the bottleholder of oppressed states. The London Times.

Bottle-nose <Xpage=169>

Bot"tle-nose` (<?/) , n. (Zo\'94l.) 1. A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus , of Europe.

2. The puffin.

Bottle-nosed <Xpage=169>

Bot"tle-nosed` (<?/) , a. Having the nose bottleshaped, or large at the end.

Dickens.

Bottler <Xpage=169>

Bot"tler (?) , n. One who bottles wine, beer, soda water, etc.

Bottlescrew <Xpage=169>

Bot"tle*screw` (?) n. A corkscrew.

Swift.

Bottling <Xpage=169>

Bot"tling (?) n. The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and corking the bottles.

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Bottom <Xpage=170>

Bot"tom (?) , n. [OE. botum , botme , AS. botm ; akin to OS. bodom , D. bodem , OHG. podam , G. boden , Icel. botn , Sw. botten , Dan. bund (for budn ), L. fundus (for fudnus ), Gr.<?/ (for <?/), Skr. budhna (for bhudhna ), and Ir. bonn sole of the foot, W. bon stem, base. \'fb257>. Cf. 4th Found , Fund , n. ]

1. The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.

Or dive into the bottom of the deep. Shak.

2. The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.

Barrels with the bottom knocked out. Macaulay.

No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms . W. Irving.

3. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.

4. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.

5. The fundament; the buttocks.

6. An abyss. [Obs.]

Dryden.

7. Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. "The bottoms and the high grounds."

Stoddard.

8. (Naut.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.

My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. Shak.

Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped. Bancroft.

Full bottom , a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise.

9. Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom .

10. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

Johnson.

At bottom , At the bottom , at the foundation or basis; in reality. "He was at the bottom a good man." J. F. Cooper. -- To be at the bottom of , to be the cause or originator of; to be the source of. [Usually in an opprobrious sense.] J. H. Newman.

He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels. Addison.

-- To go to the bottom , to sink; esp. to be wrecked. -- To touch bottom , to reach the lowest point; to find something on which to rest.

Bottom <Xpage=170>

Bot"tom , a. Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.

Bottom glade , a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale.

Milton.

- Bottom grass , grass growing on bottom lands. -- Bottom land . See 1st Bottom , n. , 7.

Bottom <Xpage=170>

Bot"tom , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bottomed (<?/); p. pr. & vb. n. Bottoming .]

1. To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon .

Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle. Atterbury.

Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state]. South.

2. To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair .

3. To reach or get to the bottom of.

Smiles.

Bottom <Xpage=170>

Bot"tom , v. i. 1. To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon .

Find on what foundation any proposition bottoms . Locke.

2. To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.

Bottom <Xpage=170>

Bot"tom , n. [OE. botme , perh. corrupt. for button . See Button .] A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. [Obs.]

Silkworms finish their bottoms in . . . fifteen days. Mortimer.

Bottom <Xpage=170>

Bot"tom , v. t. To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread. [Obs.]

As you unwind her love from him, Lest it should ravel and be good to none, You must provide to bottom it on me. Shak.

Bottomed <Xpage=170>

Bot"tomed (?) , a. Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp- bottomed ; well- bottomed .

Bottomless <Xpage=170>

Bot"tom*less , a. Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss . "Bottomless speculations."

Burke.

Bottomry <Xpage=170>

Bot"tom*ry (?) , n. [From 1st Bottom in sense 8: cf.D. bodemerij . Cf. Bummery .] (Mar.Law) A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it may, and usually does, exceed the legal rate of interest. See Hypothecation .

Bottony, Botton\'82 <Xpage=170>

Bot"ton*y (?) , Bot"to*n\'82 (?) , a. [F. boutonn\'82 , fr. boutonner to bud, button.] (Her.) Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons.

Cross bottony (Her.) , a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil. cd>

Botts <Xpage=170>

Botts (?) , n. pl. (Zo\'94l.) See Bots .

Botuliform <Xpage=170>