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n. [ Abbot + -ship. ] The state or office of an abbot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having legs that flare at the bottom; -- of trousers. bell-bottomed trousers [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. trousers with legs that flare; commonly worn as part of a sailor's uniform; -- such absurdly wide hems were also fashionable in the 1960s.
Syn. -- bellbottom trousers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

, n. 1. (Bot.) an annual Eurasian plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields; -- called also bachelor's button. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers. Varieties cultivated in North America have showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers
Syn. -- cornflower, bachelor's button. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Zool.) A large and troublesome species of blowfly (Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ pos>n.; pl. -ies /plu> [ 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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Bots. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. botanique. See Botany. ] Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition. -- Bo*tan"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

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 consist chiefly of herbs and roots. [1913 Webster]

v. to collect and study plants.
Syn. -- botanize. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. botaniste. ] One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Botanized p. pr. & vb. n. Botanizing ] [ Cf. F. botaniser. ] To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To explore for botanical purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who botanizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A botanist. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Botany + -logy: cf. F. botanologie. ] The science of botany. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Botany + -mancy: cf. F. botanomantie. ] An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Botanies [ F. botanique, a. & n., fr. Gr. &unr_; botanic, fr. &unr_; herb, plant, fr. &unr_; to feed, graze. ] 1. The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See Plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A book which treats of the science of botany. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Botany is divided into various departments; as,
Structural Botany, which investigates the structure and organic composition of plants;
Physiological Botany, the study of their functions and life; and
Systematic Botany, which has to do with their classification, description, nomenclature, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hence, any place to which desperadoes resort. [ 1913 Webster ]

Botany Bay kino (Med.), an astringent, reddish substance consisting of the inspissated juice of several Australian species of Eucalyptus. --
Botany Bay resin (Med.), a resin of reddish yellow color, resembling gamboge, the product of different Australian species of Xanthorrhæa, esp. the grass tree (Xanthorrhæa hastilis). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. bottarga, bottarica; or Sp. botarga; a kind of large sausages, a sort of wide breeches: cf. F. boutargue. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Botches [ Same as Boss a stud. For senses 2 & 3 cf. D. botsen to beat, akin to E. beat. ] 1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. [ Obs. or Dial. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle. [ 1913 Webster ]

To leave no rubs nor botches in the work. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Botched p. pr. & vb. n. Botching. ] [ See Botch, n. ] 1. To mark with, or as with, botches. [ 1913 Webster ]

Young Hylas, botched with stains. Garth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time. Robynson (More's Utopia). [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to bungle; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work. [ 1913 Webster ]

For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a clumsy manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A young salmon; a grilse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bungling; awkward. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done. “This botchy business.” Bp. Watson. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word is still used in composition as equivalent to the French estovers, supplies, necessaries; as, housebote, a sufficiency of wood to repair a house, or for fuel, sometimes called firebote; so plowbote, cartbote, wood for making or repairing instruments of husbandry; haybote or hedgebote, wood for hedges, fences, etc. These were privileges enjoyed by tenants under the feudal system. Burrill. Bouvier. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Unavailing; in vain. See Bootless. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A dipterous insect of the family (Estridæ, 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 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 under the human skin, and another in the stomach. See Gadfly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. or pron. [ OE. bothe, baþe, fr. Icel. bāðir; akin to Dan. baade, Sw. båda, Goth. bajōþs, OHG. beidē, bēdē, G. & D. beide, also AS. begen, bā, bū, Goth. bai, and Gr. 'a`mfw, L. ambo, Lith. abà, OSlav. oba, Skr. ubha. √310. Cf. Amb-. ] The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

It frequently stands as a pronoun. [ 1913 Webster ]

She alone is heir to both of us. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. Gen. xxi. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is often used in apposition with nouns or pronouns. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

This said, they both betook them several ways. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Both now always precedes any other attributive words; as, both their armies; both our eyes. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

conj. As well; not only; equally. [ 1913 Webster ]

Both precedes the first of two coördinate 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 coördinate words, connected by and expressed or understood. [ 1913 Webster ]

To judge both quick and dead. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A masterpiece both for argument and style. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

To whom bothe heven and erthe and see is sene. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

He prayeth well who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bothered (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bothering. ] [ Cf. Ir. buaidhirt trouble, buaidhrim I vex. ] To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The imperative is sometimes used as an exclamation mildly imprecatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome. [ 1913 Webster ]

Without bothering about it. H. James. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who bothers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A factotum. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He is his master's both-hands, I assure you. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Bothy. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_; pit + &unr_; something poured in. Formed like parenchyma. ] (Bot.) Dotted or pitted ducts or vessels forming the pores seen in many kinds of wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖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 Aymborés. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; cluster of grapes + -gen. ] (Min.) A hydrous sulphate of iron of a deep red color. It often occurs in botryoidal form. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_; 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; as, botryoidal hematite.
Syn. -- botryose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; cluster of grapes + -lite. ] (Min.) A variety of datolite, usually having a botryoidal structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) (a) Having the form of a cluster of grapes. (b) Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ Cf. Gael. botus belly worm, boiteag maggot. ] (Zool.) The larvæ of several species of botfly, especially those larvæ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Boot (for the foot.). ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A small boot; a lady's boot. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]